'It came out wrong': Jennifer Lawrence clarifies remark about first female-led action hero following backlash
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Jennifer Lawrence, who faced massive backlash over claims of being the first female to lead an action movie, has released a clarification. The 32-year-old actress said that "it came out wrong" when she claimed that "nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie". Lawrence played the lead role of Katniss Everdeen in the popular dystopian film 'The Hunger Games' (2012).
“That’s certainly not what I meant to say at all,” Lawrence explained speaking with The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, December 8, “I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film. What I meant to emphasize was how good it feels.” She added, “And I meant that with Viola [Davis]— to blow past these old myths that you hear about … about the chatter that you would hear around that kind of thing. But it was my blunder and it came out wrong. I had nerves talking to a living legend.”
