Jennifer Lawrence Is Getting Heat for Her Comments About Women In Action Movies

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and 's “Actors on Actors” interview for Variety hit the internet on December 7, and one clip in particular had Twitter going bananas within minutes.

Lawrence was trying to make a point about how roles for women and men in Hollywood differ—often unfairly—but one factual error had the whole internet shouting “BS” instead.“I remember when I was , nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn't work, we were told,” Lawrence says to Davis, who murmurs in agreement. “Girls and boys can both identify with a male lead.

But boys cannot identify with a female lead. And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows through every single one of those beliefs and proves that it is just a lie to keep certain people out of the movies.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Now, it is not true that Hunger Games was the first action movie with a woman lead.

Sigourney Weaver, who played the lead character in Alien, appears to be the actor cited in the most angry quote-tweets. Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider and Uma Thurman in Kill Bill also came to mind.