Jennifer Lawrence clarifies female-led action movie remark after she was roasted: ‘It came out wrong’

Jennifer Lawrence clarified controversial remarks she made earlier regarding woman-led motion motion pictures.
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She’s testifying within the courtroom of JLaw.

Following a firestorm of criticism, actress Jennifer Lawrence is clarifying remarks she made earlier regarding woman-led motion motion pictures. The Oscar-winning actress issued the alleged correction Thursday whereas talking with the Hollywood Reporter.

“It was my blunder and it got here out incorrect,” Lawrence, 32, admitted within the interview relating to her alleged slip of the tongue.

The controversy was initially sparked a day earlier after the “American Hustle” star declared herself the primary ever feminine motion lead throughout an interview for Selection’s “Actors on Actors” sequence with Viola Davis.

“I bear in mind after I was doing ‘Starvation Video games,’ no person had ever put a girl within the lead of an motion film as a result of it wouldn’t work — as a result of we have been instructed women and boys can each establish with a male lead, however boys can not establish with a feminine lead,” Lawrence claimed whereas describing her position as Katniss Everdeen within the 2012 movie adaptation primarily based on the favored ebook sequence.

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in “The Starvation Video games” (2012).

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Jennifer Lawrence speaks onstage in the course of the 2022 Gotham Awards at Cipriani Wall Avenue on Nov. 28 in New York Metropolis.

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Jennifer Lawrence, from the movie “Causeway,” speaks onstage throughout Contenders Movie: Los Angeles on the DGA Theater Advanced on Nov. 19 in California.

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Her feedback ignited a tsunami of backlash with movie buffs noting that there had been quite a few feminine motion stars lengthy earlier than her 2012 flick.

They listed examples starting from Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley within the “Alien” franchise beginning in 1979 to Angelina Jolie within the 2001 and 2003 “Tomb Raider” motion pictures.

Evidently, the Kentucky native was fast to stroll again her remarks. “That’s definitely not what I meant to say in any respect,” Lawrence clarified to THR. “I do know that I'm not the one girl who has ever led an motion movie.”

Sigourney Weaver in “Alien” (1979).

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Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in “Tomb Raider” (2001).

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She defined that she “meant to emphasise how good it feels to blow previous these outdated myths” relating to gender bias in Hollywood.

In the end, Lawrence mentioned she’d made a mistake as a result of she was nervous speaking to a “dwelling legend” in Davis.