Jennifer Lawrence clarified her comments about “nobody [putting] a woman in the lead of an action movie” before her own blockbuster success, The Hunger Games.
The actress explained that she misspoke because, during her December 7 Variety: Actors On Actors conversation with Viola Davis, she was really nervous.
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“That’s certainly not what I meant to say at all,” Lawrence told The Hollywood Reporter. “I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film. What I meant to emphasize was how good it feels.”
“But it was my blunder and it came out wrong,” she acknowledged. “I had nerves talking to a living legend.”
During the Variety interview, Lawrence controversially remarked, “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...
The actress explained that she misspoke because, during her December 7 Variety: Actors On Actors conversation with Viola Davis, she was really nervous.
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“That’s certainly not what I meant to say at all,” Lawrence told The Hollywood Reporter. “I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film. What I meant to emphasize was how good it feels.”
“But it was my blunder and it came out wrong,” she acknowledged. “I had nerves talking to a living legend.”
During the Variety interview, Lawrence controversially remarked, “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...
- 12/9/2022
- by Ilana Frost
- Uinterview
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