Jeremy Clarkson has released a statement saying he is "horrified to have caused so much hurt" following the backlash surrounding his comments about Meghan Markle.
08.12.2022 - 03:15 / usmagazine.com
A bold claim. Jennifer Lawrence recalled working on The Hunger Games and made a generalization that left moviegoers scratching their heads.
“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,” she explained to Viola Davis in Variety’s Actors on Actors series, which debuted on Wednesday, December 7. “And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows through every one of those beliefs, and proves that it is just a lie to keep certain people out of the movies. To keep certain people in the same positions that they’ve always been in.”
Internet critics were quick to react, pointing out that plenty of actresses kicked butt on the big screen before Lawrence, 32, played Katniss Everdeen for the first time in 2012’s The Hunger Games. Sigourney Weaver is often regarded as the first female action star, headlining the Alien franchise starting in 1979. Milla Jovovich kicked off the Resident Evil series in 2002 and even had a sequel in theaters in 2012, the year the Hunger Games hit the big screen.
Charlie’s Angels — starring Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu — as well as Angelina Jolie‘s two Tomb Raider films, Kate Beckinsale‘s Underworld flicks and the Uma Thurman-led Kill Bill movies were also brought up by fans.
“Lol but she wrong. There are several pre-2012 female led action films. Three Angelina Jolie movies and the Kill Bill movies quickly come to mind,” one critic commented via Twitter.
“She can’t even really argue there was a regression before Hunger Games because female led action movies
Jeremy Clarkson has released a statement saying he is "horrified to have caused so much hurt" following the backlash surrounding his comments about Meghan Markle.
Jennifer Lawrence didn’t hold back in a recent roundtable discussion for The Hollywood Reporter. Lawrence decided to put male directors on blast in a conversation that spanned topics like the depiction of female trauma onscreen, women directors, and taking ownership of one’s career choices.
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.
It’s not all fun and games. Jennifer Lawrence gave fans rare insight into her life as a parent after welcoming her son, Cy, early this year.
Sorry, Jennifer Lawrence, but WHAT?!?
In the wake of Warner Bros/DC’s The Flash going week earlier on June 16 and landing on the date of Jennifer Lawrence’s R-rated comedy No Hard Feelings, that movie has now moved a week later to June 23, which is Flash‘s old date.
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.
Kanye West has been condemned for praising WWII dictator Adolf Hitler and going on an antisemitic rant during a shocking new interview. The rapper, also known as Ye, made an appearance alongside white nationalist Nick Fuentes on far-right radio commentator and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars talk show on Thursday. After Jones claimed West didn't "deserve" to be "demonised" by people calling him a Nazi, the hip-hop mogul stated that he sees "good things about Hitler also".
, kind of woman. Come nighttime, she .