Jennifer Lawrence speaks out on controversial comments about female-led action movies

Jennifer Lawrence responded to the backlash last week by commenting that “no one had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie” before playing Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games – and told The Hollywood Reporter she was wrong expressed.

“I certainly didn’t mean to say that,” Lawrence said Thursday. “I know I’m not the only woman who has ever directed an action film. What I wanted to emphasize was how good it feels. And that’s what I meant by viola – to blow past those old myths you hear about.”

Lawrence said she only addressed “the chatter you’d hear” about female-led action films falling short when she made her faux pas with Viola Davis during Variety’s “Actors on Actors” interview, but that it was her “fault”. and “came out wrong”.

In the Variety interview, Lawrence recalled being told that “girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.” The new-found mum was subsequently slammed online, though she was merely trying to compliment Davis on her starring role in The Woman King.

“I had nerves talking to a living legend,” Lawrence told The Hollywood Reporter.

The Don’t Look Up actress, who welcomed her first child with Cooke Maroney earlier this year, was quickly reminded by Twitter users of female-led, high-octane action films like The Terminator, Aliens and Kill Invoice.”

“I was once quoted as saying that Donald Trump was responsible for hurricanes,” Lawrence told The Hollywood Reporter. “I thought one was ridiculous, that he was so stupid that I didn’t have to comment on him. But with this one, I was like, ‘I think I want to get that straight.’”

Lawrence certainly provided strong female representation in the Hunger Games franchise for a new generation. The films reportedly grossed nearly $3 billion and made them an A-list. As for Davis, the black actor had another prejudice to overcome besides gender.

“‘When have I ever seen anything like ‘The Woman King’?” Davis recalled as he thought during their interview. “Not just me in it, but anyone who looks like me in it? Which studio is behind the money? How are they going to be convinced that black women can run a global box office?”

“The Woman King” was released in September – and conquered the domestic box office.