Jennifer Lawrence wowed moviegoers worldwide as the athletic protagonist in 2012’s The Hunger Games. But her recent comments have prompted some to remind the celeb that she is far from the first woman to lead an action flick.
The pushback comes after Variety published the latest edition of its “Actors on Actors” series, featuring Lawrence and Viola Davis. Both actresses starred in films this past year: Lawrence commands attention in Causeway and Davis impresses in The Woman King.
On Wednesday afternoon, Variety tweeted a snippet of the pair’s conversation.
“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—because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead,” Lawrence said in the short video.
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