Jennifer Lawrence clarifies comment on women-led action movies following criticism

Actress Jennifer Lawrence on Thursday sought to make clear a controversial remark she made earlier this week concerning female-led motion motion pictures. 

In a video interview revealed Wednesday in Variety, Lawrence informed fellow actress Viola Davis that, “I bear in mind once I was doing ‘Starvation Video games,’ no one had ever put a lady within the lead of an motion film, as a result of it would not work, we have been informed. Ladies and boys can each establish with a male lead, however boys can’t establish with a feminine lead.”  

After the remark sparked on-line criticism, Lawrence on Thursday informed The Hollywood Reporter that she didn’t imply to say she was the “solely girl who has ever led an motion movie,” however as a substitute to “emphasize how good it feels.”

Lawrence stated she wished to blow previous “outdated myths” which have plagued the movie and TV business, particularly concerning gender bias in Hollywood.  

Franklin Leonard, founding father of The Black Record, Hollywood’s annual survey of the most well-liked screenplays, called Lawrence’s feedback “unfaithful,” but in addition famous a “actual bias in opposition to ladies pushed motion motion pictures.” 

“It’s unfaithful that nobody had ever put a lady in an motion film earlier than Jennifer Lawrence in Starvation Video games,” Leonard tweeted. “It’s completely true that Hollywood had and has an actual bias in opposition to ladies pushed motion motion pictures due to this ridiculous perception about who identifies with whom.”

The almost 45-minute sit-down interview with Davis targeted on motherhood, inequities inside Hollywood, and their respective movie tasks.   

Tre’Vaughn Howard

Tre’Vaughn Howard is a producer and journalist for CBS Information, specializing in worldwide and tradition tales.