She’s testifying in the court of JLaw.
Jennifer Lawrence clarifies false comments she made regarding women-led action movies after being criticized. The Oscar-winning actress made the correction while talking to The Hollywood Reporter.
“It was my blunder and it came out wrong,”Lawrence, 32 years old, confessed in an interview about her slip of tongue.
After a day, the controversy had already been started. “American Hustle” star declared herself the first ever female action lead during an interview for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series with Viola Davis.
“I remember when I was doing ‘Hunger Games,’ nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work — because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead,”Lawrence said this as she described her role in Katniss Everdeen’s 2012 movie adaptation.
The backlash was intense with movie buffs noting the fact that many female action heroes existed long before 2012’s film.
They listed examples ranging from Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley in the “Alien” franchise starting in 1979 to Angelina Jolie in the 2001 and 2003 “Tomb Raider” movies.
The Kentucky native quickly retorted her comments. “That’s certainly not what I meant to say at all,”Lawrence explained to THR. “I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film.”
She stated that she “meant to emphasize how good it feels to blow past these old myths” regarding gender bias in Hollywood.
Ultimately, Lawrence said she’d made a mistake because she was nervous talking to a “living legend”Davis
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