Jennifer Lawrence has come under fire after claiming there were no major female leads in the acting world before she burst onto the scene with her work in The Hunger Games.
It all started when Jennifer joined the famous actress Viola Davis to give an interview, here The two action heroines remembered some of the most emblematic roles of her career and revealed some details that very few knew.
Like the fact, Jennifer was required to lose weight to play the role of Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games franchise, which she definitely no longer wanted to do since she wanted to prove that she could be a great hero regardless of her age.
But that was not what caught the attention of the fans the most, What really generated a lot of controversy among them was when she made a comment that stated that there were very few important female protagonists in the world of action, before she arrived, In this regard, he said, “I remember when we were making The Hunger Games, no one had put a woman in front of an action movie because it wouldn't work, because they told us that girls and boys can identify with a male protagonist, but boys "They definitely can't identify with a female protagonist."
Jennifer later added, “And that's why it makes me so happy every time I see a movie come out that just goes beyond every one of our beliefs and shows us that it's a lie to keep certain people out of movies while keeping the same people in the movies. same positions they have always been in.”
As expected, this immediately caught the attention of film fans and some critics who quickly spoke out against Jennifer Lawrence's beliefs that she had been the first protagonist or heroine in an action film. and they talked about other great actresses with an important cast in the world.
Remember that there are great actresses who have previously worked in successful franchises as protagonists in their own stories. When Jennifer realized the negative reaction that her comment was generating on different social networks, she immediately came out to talk about it, In a new interview Jennifer had to retract her words and in these she assured that her words were simply not understood in the way she would have wanted.
In this regard, she said that the only thing she wanted to convey was that she was extremely happy and that it made her feel very good when she realized that old myths were overcome, but that the way she expressed it was not correct, that everything went wrong and that he apologized if people had been offended by his comment.
