I like Jennifer Lawrence, but it’s always funny when A-list celebrities are so confidently incorrect about something. Especially when they’re trying to big themselves up in the process.
J-Law bizarrely claimed in an interview with Variety this week that she was the first woman ever cast in the lead of an action movie when she starred as Katniss Everdeen in the first Hunger Games in 2012. Here’s what she said:
‘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.
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.’
A few classic action female leads would like to have a word:
I mean there’s just so many from movies and entire franchises that came out way before Hunger Games did, so I’m not sure what Jennifer Lawrence is on about. It’s true the amount of female action leads are a small percentage compared to male action leads, but it’s still no tiny amount. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is another one. A literal female vampire slayer!
Well anyway, people misspeak and say dumb things from time to time, especially when you give as many media interviews as someone like J-Law does. Still, it’s not like you can say something like that and get away without a ribbing in the internet age. Onwards and upwards!
For the time Lawrence addressed the claim that she slept with Harvey Weinstein, click HERE.