Actress Jennifer Lawrence on Thursday sought to make clear a controversial remark she made earlier this week concerning female-led motion motion pictures.
In a video interview printed Wednesday in Variety, Lawrence advised fellow actress Viola Davis that, “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, we were told. Girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.”
After the remark sparked on-line criticism, Lawrence on Thursday advised The Hollywood Reporter that she didn’t imply to say she was the “only woman who has ever led an action film,” however as an alternative to “emphasize how good it feels.”
Lawrence stated she wished to blow previous “old myths” which have plagued the movie and TV business, particularly concerning gender bias in Hollywood.
“But it was my blunder and it came out wrong,” Lawrence advised THR. “I had nerves talking to a living legend.”
Franklin Leonard, founding father of The Black List, Hollywood’s annual survey of the preferred screenplays, referred to as Lawrence’s feedback “untrue,” but additionally famous a “real bias against women driven action movies.”
“It is untrue that no one had ever put a woman in an action movie before Jennifer Lawrence in Hunger Games,” Leonard tweeted. “It is absolutely true that Hollywood had and has a real bias against women driven action movies because of this ridiculous belief about who identifies with whom.”
The almost 45-minute sit-down interview with Davis centered on motherhood, inequities inside Hollywood, and their respective movie tasks.