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After catch fire online to thousands of moviegoers, hunger games star Jennifer Lawrence gave up on comments she made about action movies as a woman.
“I remember when I was doing hunger gamesnobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work – because we were told that girls and boys can both identify with a male role, but boys can’t relate to a female lead,” Lawrence told fellow Oscar winner Viola Davis as part of Varietyfrom the series Actors on Actors.
The internet didn’t pass up the commentary, with moviegoers refreshing Lawrence’s memory about Sigourney Weaveris Ellen Ripley in the aliens movies, Linda Hamilton in the terminator movies, Milla Jovovich in the resident Evil movies and Uma Thurman in Kill Billamong others.
“Jennifer Lawrence Says There Were No Female Action Heroes Before Her The hunger Games so please take a moment to mourn Sigourney Weaver who apparently never existed,” one comedy stream said, earning thousands of retweets.
Some actresses took it very personally, including Star Trek: The Next Generation veteran Denise Crobywho tweeted“Hey Jennifer Lawrence, thank you for giving me the opportunity to thank the many boys/men who were allowed to completely identify with a female character long before you were born. We are two…”
After the backlash, Lawrence said The Hollywood Reporter Thursday, “That’s certainly not what I meant at all. I know I’m not the only woman to have directed an action film. What I wanted to emphasize is how good it feels… But it was my blunder and it went wrong. I had my nerves talking to a living legend.
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