Jennifer Lawrence Addresses Controversial Comment About Female-Led Action Films

Jennifer Lawrence has responded to the backlash from her comment last week that nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie before her role as Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games and told The Hollywood Reporter she misspoke.

Thats certainly not what I meant to say at all, Lawrence said Thursday . 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. And I meant that with Viola to blow past these old myths that you hear about.

Lawrence said she was just addressing the chatter that you would hear around female-led action movies being given short shrift when she made her faux pas during Varietys Actors on Actors interview with Viola Davis , but that it was her blunder and came out wrong.

In the Variety interview, Lawrence recalled being told that girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead. The newfound mom was subsequently slammed online despite merely trying to compliment Davis on her lead in The Woman King .

I had nerves talking to a living legend, Lawrence told The Hollywood Reporter.

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