Jennifer Lawrence clarifies female-led action movie remark after she was roasted: 'It came out wrong' - New York Post

She’s testifying successful the tribunal of JLaw.

Following a firestorm of criticism, histrion Jennifer Lawrence is clarifying remarks she made earlier concerning woman-led enactment movies. The Oscar-winning histrion issued the alleged correction Thursday portion speaking with the Hollywood Reporter.

“It was my blunder and it came retired wrong,” Lawrence, 32, admitted successful the interrogation regarding her alleged gaffe of the tongue.

The contention was initially sparked a time earlier aft the “American Hustle” prima declared herself the archetypal ever pistillate enactment pb during an interrogation for Variety’s “Actors connected Actors” series with Viola Davis.

“I retrieve erstwhile I was doing ‘Hunger Games,’ cipher had ever enactment a pistillate successful the pb of an enactment movie due to the fact that it wouldn’t enactment — due to the fact that we were told girls and boys tin some place with a antheral lead, but boys cannot place with a pistillate lead,” Lawrence claimed portion describing her relation arsenic Katniss Everdeen successful the 2012 movie adaptation based connected the fashionable publication series.

Jennifer Lawrence arsenic Katniss Everdeen successful “The Hunger Games” (2012).©Lions Gate/Courtesy Everett Collection

Jennifer Lawrence speaks onstage during the 2022 Gotham Awards astatine Cipriani Wall Street connected Nov. 28 successful New York City.Getty Images for The Gotham Film & Media Institute

Jennifer Lawrence, from the movie “Causeway,” speaks onstage during Contenders Film: Los Angeles astatine the DGA Theater Complex connected Nov. 19 successful California.Deadline via Getty Images

Her comments ignited a tsunami of backlash with movie buffs noting that determination had been a fig of pistillate enactment stars agelong earlier her 2012 flick.

They listed examples ranging from Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley successful the “Alien” franchise starting successful 1979 to Angelina Jolie in the 2001 and 2003 “Tomb Raider” movies.

Needless to say, the Kentucky autochthonal was speedy to locomotion backmost her remarks. “That’s surely not what I meant to accidental astatine all,” Lawrence clarified to THR. “I cognize that I americium not the lone pistillate who has ever led an enactment film.”

Sigourney Weaver successful “Alien” (1979).©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection

Angelina Jolie arsenic Lara Croft successful “Tomb Raider” (2001).Alamy Stock Photo

She explained that she “meant to stress however bully it feels to stroke past these aged myths” regarding sex bias successful Hollywood.

Ultimately, Lawrence said she’d made a mistake due to the fact that she was tense talking to a “living legend” successful Davis.