This former A list actress who will tell you she didn’t sleep with the disgraced producer contends now that she was the first female action star.

Umm, no.

Jennifer Lawrence

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Jennifer Lawrence roasted for saying she was first woman action lead in ‘Hunger Games’

May the odds be ever in Jennifer Lawrence’s favor for the backlash she’s receiving for this comment.

During a conversation for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series with Viola Davis released Wednesday, the 32-year-old “Hunger Games” star declared herself as the first woman to lead an action movie.

“I remember when I was doing ‘Hunger Games,’ nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work — because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead,” she said of her role as Katniss Everdeen in the 2012 film adaptation based on the popular book series.

“And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows through every one of those beliefs and proves that it is just a lie to keep certain people out of the movies,” Lawrence said, tying “Hunger Games” to Davis’ recent movie, “The Woman King.” “To keep certain people in the same positions that they’ve always been in.”

Fans immediately took to Twitter to call Lawrence’s bluff since many actresses have been cast as leads in action films long before Lawrence’s 2012 movie.

Fans pointed out actresses such as Sigourney Weaver, who played Ellen Ripley in the “Alien” franchise starting in 1979; Milla Jovovich as Alice in the “Resident Evil” movies starting in 2002; and Angelina Jolie in the 2001 and 2003 “Tomb Raider” movies. – Source


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