Jennifer Lawrence bundled up against the December cold when she was spotted in New York City, where she lives, on Thursday.
The 32-year-old Oscar winner wrapped up in a brown anorak and pulled on a burnt orange knit beanie to keep out the chilly air.
Her latest observation comes after she backtracked on her recent claim that she was the first ever woman to be cast to direct an action film despite the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Angelina Jolie leading franchises long before her.
City girl: Jennifer Lawrence bundled up against the December cold when she was spotted in New York City, where she lives, on Thursday
In a statement to THR, the Oscar winner said her remark “went wrong” and meant expressing how “it feels good” to be a female force in a male-dominated genre.
“That’s certainly not what I meant at all. I know I’m not the only woman to have directed an action movie,” began Jennifer, who played acclaimed female protagonist Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012).
“What I wanted to emphasize is how good it is. And I meant that with Viola [Davis] – to get past those old myths you hear about…about the chatter you would hear around this kind of thing.
Legging it: The 32-year-old Oscar-winning actress wrapped herself in a brown anorak and donned a burnt orange knit beanie to shield herself from the chilly cold air
“But it was my blunder and it went wrong. I had my nerves talking to a living legend,” Jennifer concluded.
She originally made the bizarre claim while meeting fellow Oscar winner Viola Davis on Variety’s Actors on Actors series, which was released earlier this week.
The mother-of-one, who went on to play Katniss in four films, revealed executives feared the boys “wouldn’t be able to relate” to a female lead.
Sigourney who?: Her latest comment comes after she backtracked on her recent claim that she was the first-ever woman cast to direct an action film
It feels good: In a statement to THR, the Oscar winner said her remark “went wrong” and that it meant expressing how “it feels good” to be a female force in a genre dominated by men. She was referring to her career role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games movies
Her cast in film follows a succession of iconic female action heroes who starred in blockbuster films before 2012 – including Weaver who played Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, Jolie who portrayed Lara Croft in two Tomb Raider films, Uma Thurman as Quentin in Tarantino’s Kill Bill series and Milla Jovovich as Alice in the Resident Evil movies.
Discussing the early days of The Hunger Games, Jennifer said: “I remember when I was doing The Hunger Games, nobody ever put a woman in charge 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 cannot identify with a female role.
“And it makes me so happy every time I see a movie come out that crosses every one of those beliefs and proves that it’s just a lie to keep some people out of movies.
“That’s certainly not what I meant at all. I know I’m not the only woman to have directed an action movie,” she said. Jennifer seen in November
“To keep some people in the same positions they’ve always had,” she said.
She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Katniss in the movie Hunger Games, which was followed in 2013 by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2, released in 2014 and 2015 respectively. .
Elsewhere in the interview, Oscar winner Jennifer opened up about the pressure she was under when she was younger to fit into a certain body image.
Icon: Jennifer’s cast in the film follows a succession of iconic female action heroes who starred in blockbuster films before 2012 – including Sigourney Weaver who played Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise (pictured)
Say what? Milla Jovovich starred as Alice in the Resident Evil movies, starting in 2002 (L) while Angelina Jolie (R) played Lara Craft in the Tomb Raider movies, first released in 2001
Not the first! Linda Hamilton played Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1991
Another: Uma Thurman was the female action star when she played The Bride in the Kill Bill films – the first chapter of which came out in 2003
She said, “When I was doing X-Men, it’s hard not to have this perception of the movie that’s like, ‘Oh, well, that’s just one of them.
“Especially when you’re painted blue with scales on your face. If you start thinking, ‘I look ridiculous, I feel ridiculous’, there’s nowhere to go.
“In The Hunger Games it was a huge responsibility. Those pounds were huge and I knew the audience was kids. I remember the biggest conversation was ‘How much weight are you going to lose?’
Jennifer received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Katniss in The Hunger Games, which was followed in 2013 by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2, released in 2014 and 2015 respectively. .
“Besides being young and growing up and not being able to diet, I don’t know if I want all the girls who are going to dress as Katniss to feel like they can’t because they’re not a certain weight, and I can’t let that seep into my brain either.
In October, Jennifer spoke candidly to Variety about her work on The Hunger Games movies and how she often felt like “commodity” and “lost her sense of control.”
‘When I think now, I can’t think of those next years, [because there was] just a loss of control,” Jennifer said.
“I think I lost my sense of control. Between coming out of The Hunger Games and getting the Oscar [for 2012’s Silver Lining Playbook]I became such a commodity that I felt like every decision was a big, big group decision.
Dark Side of Stardom: In October, Jennifer spoke candidly to Variety about her work on The Hunger Games movies and how she often felt like “commodity” and “lost her sense of control”; Jennifer seen in The Hunger Games (2012)
