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08.12.2022 - 03:05 / perezhilton.com
Sorry, Jennifer Lawrence, but WHAT?!?
The Don’t Look Up star is part of the latest series of Actors on Actors interviews for Variety. Her convo with Viola Davis went up on Tuesday and ranges from thoughts on motherhood to action stardom — and it’s in the latter subject that J.Law makes a pretty wild statement that has film fandom scratching their heads.
Speaking about Viola’s action-packed performance in The Woman King, the 32-year-old tries to make a point about the sexism of the movie industry — but winds up overblowing her own role in it. She says:
Um, we’re sorry… WHAT?! “Nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie”?? Before the Hunger Games?? Gurl, what in the hell are you even talking about?
Obviously chauvinism has always been a big problem in show business, and there certainly haven’t been enough female action stars over the years. Heck, even now they’re being put in the backseat of their own movies. But saying “nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie” before 2012 is just plain nonsense.
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You’ve got Sigourney Weaver as the lead of the entire Alien franchise, Geena Davis had a run in the ’90s with movies like The Long Kiss Goodnight, and of course the 2000s were owned by Angelina Jolie! Never heard of Tomb Raider?? How about Milla Jovovich as the lead of the Resident Evil franchise? Kate Beckinsale in the Underworld movies? Uma Thurman in Kill Bill? That’s not to mention Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock kicking butt in kung fu movies going back to the ’80s. And Pam Grier starred in Coffy in 1973, nearly four decades before Katniss picked up her bow! That’s just off the top of our heads!
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would like to make it clear, for the record, that she knows that The Hunger Games was not the first ever action movie with a woman lead, okay? She misspoke. She was nervous because she was talking to , which is understandable, right?In one unfortunate clip from their “Actors On Actors” interview for Variety, Lawrence said, of 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.” And the internet promptly exploded, as the internet does.
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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.
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, kind of woman. Come nighttime, she .