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People in Hollywood can be stupid and Jennifer Lawrence decided to prove it. She gave an interview with Variety where she basically says there weren't female action leads in movies before Katniss Everdeen in Hunger games. That did not go over well with Twitter. It was not even a left-of-politics versus a right-of-politics thing. It was widely slammed and it was glorious to behold.Quote:
"I remember when I was doing 'Hunger Games,' nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie," Jennifer Lawrence says. "We were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead." https://t.co/TqYPwE3e0E pic.twitter.com/fYVqN2pzxo
Variety (@Variety) December 7, 2022
Congratulations, that's the most ignorant thing I've read all day. Apparently, #JenniferLawrence hasn't seen any movies. So dumb. https://t.co/2OWrxGUvMi
— By the numbers ๐โ๏ธ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐๐๐ (@TheRealFixNow) December 7, 2022
Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamilton didn't give the performances of their lifetimes to be disrespected like this. https://t.co/jG19Gp4UuQ
— Scotty Millard (@scootsie34) December 7, 2022
Iโm sorry, what??? https://t.co/9a3D3ZWU5h pic.twitter.com/NF2J53pfjx
— John Carson (@John_Carson) December 7, 2022
From the top of my head these are 4 successful action franchises lead by women a decade before Katniss ever picked up a bow and arrow. https://t.co/L5tCHSOh3p pic.twitter.com/TAbj6x5Yo4
— Titan (@TheTitanBaddie) December 7, 2022
Everyoneโs dragging this, but I think actor brain is wonderful. She clearly believes she was the first to walk this well-trodden path. https://t.co/rykT9Udpkf
— Holly Jolly William Friedkin Truths (@LazlosGhost) December 7, 2022