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Jennifer Lawrence claims 'nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work' when she


...was doing Hunger Games

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Lawrence: Goodbye! I want to circle back to you being “The Woman King.” 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. 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. To keep certain people in the same positions that they’ve always been in.


https://variety.com/2022/film/features/jennifer-lawrence-viola-davis-action-heroes-motherhood-1235451405/

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Wow, she really was living under a rock before 2012, wasn't she?

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Even before I posted this, I was thinking, has Jennifer Lawrence not heard of Sigourney Weaver in Aliens? That's the first female lead in an action film that immediately sprung to my mind. Or what about Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider or Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight, which also predated The Hunger Games?

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Omg. JLaw might have said something out of turn.
I know you and I would NEVER say anything that didn't fit the scenario perfectly.
Hey ! I'm young, I'm a movie star and I'm an erudite film scholar and I know how to speak in every public situation because I have ice in my veins. I can always be perfect all the time, just like everyone else does.

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She's talking about her own industry and clearly knows nothing about it. Viola Davis was in that interview, and she's just as bad.

It's not even a niche industry that takes lots of study to get to grips with the history of, it's movies. Easily accessible from birth. All it takes is an interest, and with being an actor, you would think these two dummies did have an interest in movies.

Everything seems to be the first with these people, and the bravest, the most groundbreaking.

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Either she has an ego about her, or she really has not watched any movies pre-2010s. Either that, or a theory Gary from the youtube channel "Nerdrotic" was floating stated that someone lied to her in Hollywood and claimed that audiences don't like or won't accept female leads; which we all know is BS. We've had female leads in movies since the beginning, even if it wasn't always an action film.

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Or Uma Thurman in Kill Bill 1 & 2.

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its true.

peoples cite sarah connor? she wasnt the lead in terminator movies... arnie and Michael biehns was. signourney was top bill in aliens, but bill paxton and the colonial marine stole the shows in that film! she was sideshow in own film.

if woke retard want to watch female action hero and have there own shit film where mary sues dominate, let them! all power to the insecure womens who want to be men! just dont invade good films with woketard idiotologys! mens dont want to see 100 pound female beating shit out of 200 pound men. there is nothing wrong with not wanting that!

us men have out action genre from 1980s - 2000s. now woketards have their own. good for them. they can pretend women dont look ridiculous as warriors hahahahahahah.

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Wtf is true?

Are you that illiterate into cinema???

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my point is no one want to watch woman action hero in past. thats why you no see them before. they do so now to placates woketard mob.

previous generation of woman movie watcher (1920s-1990s) were not insecure so they dont need female action hero to feel good about self esteem, they were fine watching film like sense and sensibility, cinderella and titanics.

current generation of woman (2000-2020s) are insecure and need to do man things to think they have worth. they need to compare themselfs to man becuase they have no self esteem. that is why they are in our face all time telling us how insecure they are by pretending to be man.

look at jizz face jennifer lawrence comment - oozing with insecuritys and no self esteems. most current women think this way. always comparing themself to man, always victim, always grievance. like leftist politic - victim complex city!!

woman warrior!? get woman to storm beach of normandy, they would still be there to this day argue with each others on the boat hahahahahah. ww2 still going on to this day if they get woman to fight instead of man. that is why no one want to see woman warrior in film, they have no business pretending to be warrior hahahaha.

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My man, how old are you??

Were you even watching movies before 2011?? (When Hunger Games was released?)

Have you ever heard of Wonder Woman (NOT the new one)? Catwoman? Underworld? Evil Resident? Red Sonia? Xena? Charlie's Angels? Kill Bill? Tomb Raider? Salt? Buffy? Electra? Aeon Flux?

Does the name Cynthia Rothrock sound familiar? Michelle Yeoh? Pam Grier?

And yeah, Alien and Aliens count as a female led action movie. Plus you have Pvt Vasquez in Aliens that shits on all the men in the company without being a feminist.

https://goat.com.au/michelle-yeoh/the-80s-and-90s-were-a-golden-age-for-women-led-action-movies-and-were-about-to-have-another-one/

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"Have you ever heard of Wonder Woman (NOT the new one)? Catwoman? Underworld? Evil Resident? Red Sonia? Xena? Charlie's Angels? Kill Bill? Tomb Raider? Salt? Buffy? Electra? Aeon Flux?"


thankfully i have no seen any of these film, unless you mean briget nielsen's red sonja, which was good film.

i have not heard of rothrocks.

"Plus you have Pvt Vasquez in Aliens that shits on all the men in the company without being a feminist."


disagrees. Hicks and Hudson were the best chracter in film. they steal show. hicks and hudson > riplety. i like vazquez and ripley though. but aliens suck without men colonial marine.

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"thankfully i have no seen any of these film" well, I've seen them all ... you should try at least Kill Bill.

"i have not heard of rothrocks." and how is that our fault? That fact that you never heard about something doesn't mean that that something doesn't exist ;)

"disagrees. " - disagree as well. Ripley then Vasquez then the others, the men are mostly just cannon fodder, a bit more developed I agree, something for aliens to kill and raise the stakes.

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the creams rise to top, asom. if ive not heard of rothrock then that mean she star in D movies where director is also caterer and janitors. i have no desires to waste time watching film of this kind.

perhaps i word original post wrong. there have always been film with tough female lead. but they are rare. they are not norm. becuase 99% of time woman look dumb being tough. only one or two actress can do tough. sandal bergman is one, bridget nielsen is other. it is small group.

action is male genre. no one want to see 100 pound woman act like rambo except insecure women and beta soy boy fag. women should be having marry and kids, not wanting to be man. jizz face jennifer is try to be victim with divisive statement. there is lack of female action hero because they suck, not because sexism.


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Well, that shows your limitations and that you project your values on everyone else.

That's YOUR problem, NOT mine.

The fact that YOU refuse to watch movies with female leads is on you, people usually don't refuse that.

Kill Bill is a great movie and a success, that you don't want to watch it ... again, not my problem.

Most likely, based on your "accent", you are from some backward , dark ages culturally speaking, muslim country. And that's ok, you have your values - but that doesn't mean that we ALL have the same values as you. Because, well, we really don't.

Btw, I can bet that my 135 pounds girlfriend would kick YOUR ass, BADLY.

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They start to believe their own lies. 1984 is today, it is now …

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What a dumb cunt, Aliens, Kill Bill, Lara Croft, Terminator, etc.

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Barbarella, Cat Ballou, Red Sonja, Barb Wire, a slew of Pam Grier films, even more Cynthia Rothrock films, Geena Davis Cut Throat Island, Jamie Lee Curtis in Blue Steel, Meryl Streep in The River Wild, Whoopi Goldberg in Jumpin' Jack Flash & Fatal Beauty, G.I. Jane, Catwoman, Kill Bill, The Next Karate Kid, Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider & Salt, Alien 1,2,3,4, Elektra, La Femme Nikita, Point of No Return, Run Lola Run, Patricia Tallman in Night of the Living Dead (1990), every final girl in 100s of horror films.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (a movie & 7 seasons!), Underworld (5 movies since 2003), Resident Evil (6 movies since 2002), Charlie's Angels (long running TV show shown world wide, and multiple movies), Wonder Woman, Bionic Woman.

The list goes on and on......

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Oh dear. I forgot about Catwoman. ))) Even if it flopped because it was bad movie. But it was a big budget action movie with woman in lead role. Not only that but a black woman. But Lawrence is so ignorant and stupid that she didnt even bother to check before making that statement.

Someone lied to her during production to fulfill her ego. And she bought it believing she was some groundbreaking Rosa Parks of action movies )))) .

I wish Halle Berry would call her out on that. Catwoman had a budget of 100 millions, so say wikipedia. It was a big action movie with woman lead.

Or Uma Thurman for Kill Bill.

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Its so obvious how stupid, ignorant and uneducated she is when she open her mouth on serious subjects.

Like... she really doesnt know that. Like her knowledge of cinema history is not going further than when she got into acting. Her first movie was on 2006. Tomb Raider movies with Angelina Jolie came out in 2001 and 2003.

Not to mention Jolie did Salt in 2010 where she was lead. That action movie made 118 millions in USA.

Jennifer Lawrence should really stop talking so that it would not be so obvious how stupid and ignorant she is.



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Think from Meant from 2012-Present for the Modern Era also Katniss, Furiosa and Rey were the Catalysts

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I think her phrasing is wrong, but imo there was a drought when it came to female leads around the time The Hunger Games was released. A lot of the most famous female actions leads are from the late 80s and prior and, while the early 2000s didn't have zero, it didn't have many and of those, most leaned into the fighting f*cktoy trope.

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Underworld was onto its 4th film when hunger games was released.

add in;

Doomsday (2008)
All the Resident Evil films
Wanted (2008)
Death Proof (2007)
A said above the Underworlds
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Lady Vengeance (2005)
Kill Bill 1 and 2
Tomb Raider 1 and 2

Those off the top of my head

It is complete nonsense to think there weren't any. Complete nonsense

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I didn't say there weren't any, I said there weren't many. You highlighted this, considering you named mostly one per year, with Kate Beckinsale taking up one of those singular roles for years. And of those, which female leads don't fall into the fighting f*cktoy trope? Not many. Maybe House of Flying Daggers and that's it - and that's not a U.S film, so I don't think should be included since I'm sure Lawrence wasn't talking about Chinese cinema, which is its own separate entity anyway.

I'm sure your list of male action leads at the time would be way more extensive, and they wouldn't all be carbon copies of each other, their characters would be more varied.

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