Jennifer Lawrence Faces Backlash After Claiming ‘Hunger Games’ Was the 1st Female-Led Action Franchise
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 ...