Jennifer Lawrence draws criticism over comment about female action heroes - CNN

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Jennifer Lawrence shared her thoughts connected the past of female-led enactment movies successful a caller interview, but the “Hunger Games” prima is getting immoderate flack for not rather getting it right.

The Oscar victor spoke with chap histrion Viola Davis successful an interrogation for Variety published connected Wednesday, successful which she mused connected the past authorities of enactment movies with a pistillate lead.

“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 told Davis, who this twelvemonth starred successful her ain action-heavy film, “The Woman King.”

The “Silver Linings Playbook” histrion went connected to accidental that it makes her “so blessed each azygous time” she sees a movie that proves women tin so inhabit those roles successful movies.

People connected societal media were speedy to constituent out, however, that Lawrence was acold from the archetypal pistillate enactment hero, with galore tweets referencing Sigourney Weaver successful the “Alien” franchise, Linda Hamilton successful the “Terminator” movies and Pam Grier successful films similar “Foxy Brown” – each of which predate “The Hunger Games” franchise. (The archetypal film, based connected the fashionable YA bid of novels, came retired successful 2012, portion the past movie was released successful 2015)

“It is untrue that nary 1 had ever enactment a pistillate successful an enactment movie earlier Jennifer Lawrence successful ‘Hunger Games,’” Franklin Leonard, laminitis of The Black List, a level that helps movie and TV writers get their screenplays work by influential Hollywood figures, said, responding to a clip of the interrogation connected Twitter. “It is perfectly existent that Hollywood had and has a existent bias against women driven enactment movies due to the fact that of this ridiculous content astir who identifies with whom.”

Other examples brought to airy successful comments connected Twitter and beyond pointed to Michelle Yeoh successful “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and different films, Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez successful the “Resident Evil” franchise, Uma Thurman successful “Kill Bill” and Angelina Jolie successful the “Tomb Raider” movies.

CNN has reached retired to representatives of Jennifer Lawrence for clarification connected her statement.