Jennifer Lawrence Attempts To Walk Back Her False Claims About Female Action Stars: “That's Certainly Not What I Meant To Say At All" - Bounding Into Comics
Jennifer Lawrence is receiving some serious heat from movie fans after falsely claiming that Hollywood did not have a female led action movie until 2012’s The Hunger Games.
Lawrence recently did a sit down interview with actress Viola Davis for Variety and said, “Nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work. We were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.”
She continued, “And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows through every one of those beliefs, and proves that it is just a lie to keep certain people out of the movies. To keep certain people in the same positions that they’ve always been in. It’s just amazing to watch it happen, and watch you at the helm.”
After a day of intense backlash by film fans and critics alike, Lawrence is walking back her inflammably false statement about being the first female lead in an action film. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, Lawrence tried to clarify her comments.
“That’s certainly not what I meant to say at all,” Lawrence said. “I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film. What I meant to emphasize was how good it feels. And I meant that with Viola to blow past these old myths that you hear about the...
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