Jennifer Lawrence clarifies touch upon women-led motion films following criticism

Actress Jennifer Lawrence on Thursday sought to make clear a controversial remark she made earlier this week concerning female-led motion films. 

In a video interview printed Wednesday in Variety, Lawrence informed fellow actress Viola Davis that, “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, we were told. Girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.”  

After the remark sparked on-line criticism, Lawrence on Thursday informed The Hollywood Reporter that she didn’t imply to say she was the “only woman who has ever led an action film,” however as a substitute to “emphasize how good it feels.”

Lawrence stated she needed to blow previous “old myths” which have plagued the movie and TV trade, particularly concerning gender bias in Hollywood.  

“But it was my blunder and it came out wrong,” Lawrence informed THR. “I had nerves talking to a living legend.”  

Franklin Leonard, founding father of The Black List, Hollywood’s annual survey of the most well-liked screenplays, called Lawrence’s feedback “untrue,” but additionally famous a “real bias against women driven action movies.” 

“It is untrue that no one had ever put a woman in an action movie before Jennifer Lawrence in Hunger Games,” Leonard tweeted. “It is absolutely true that Hollywood had and has a real bias against women driven action movies because of this ridiculous belief about who identifies with whom.”

The practically 45-minute sit-down interview with Davis targeted on motherhood, inequities inside Hollywood, and their respective movie initiatives.