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distance storm of criticismActress Jennifer Lawrence clarifies remarks she made earlier regarding female-led action films. The Oscar-winning actress released the alleged patch on Thursday while speaking with her Hollywood Reporter.
“It was my fault and it came out wrong,” Lawrence, 32, admitted in the interview about her alleged slip of the tongue.
The controversy initially erupted the day before after the “American Hustle” star announced herself as the first-ever lead character during an interview with Variety’s Actors on Actors series with Viola Davis.
“I remember when I was doing ‘Hunger Games,’ no one would put a woman in the lead in an action movie because it wouldn’t work — because we’re told that girls and boys can identify with a male lead, but boys can’t,” Lawrence claimed while describing her role as Katniss Everdeen in the movie. Adapted 2012 based on the popular book series.
Her comments sparked a tsunami of backlash with movie buffs noting that there had been a number of female action stars long before her 2012 film.
They listed examples ranging from Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley in the “Alien” film series that began in 1979 to Angelina Jolie in the 2001 and 2003 “Tomb Raider” films.
Needless to say, the Kentucky native was quick to walk back her remarks. “That’s definitely not what I meant to say at all,” Lawrence explained to THR. “I know I’m not the only woman who’s ever helmed an action movie.”
She explained that she “meant to emphasize how good it felt to transcend these age-old myths” regarding sexism in Hollywood.
In the end, Lawrence said she made a mistake because she was nervous about talking to a “living legend” in Davis.
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