Jennifer Lawrence has been considered a great actress and one of the most popular action actresses in Hollywood since the Hunger Games series at the latest. but now the internet is raining down a hail of ridicule on them. Because, in her opinion, she paved the way for all women in the genre. Film history or not.
Jennifer Lawrence ignores 60 years of action history with Hunger Games statement
In Variety’s conversation with Viola Davis (The Suicide Squad), she interpreted her role in the Panem franchise as groundbreaking for all actors:
When I was shooting Hunger Games, I had no one has ever cast a woman as the action lead, because it supposedly didn’t work. It is said that girls and boys can identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with one alone [Frau als Star].
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The punishment followed immediately. The Internet, and of course action fans in particular, poured bags of ridicule over Lawrence and her statement. They referred to various examples of women who had claimed as leading ladies in the genre long before Lawrence.
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“Jennifer Lawrence was the first female action star [und] these women owe [ihr alles]“, stands about maliciously over a list of actresses who enriched the genre since the 1970s at the latest. Among them are alien heroine Sigourney Weaver, blaxploitation star Pam Grier and martial arts veteran Michelle Yeoh.
Especially in the Asian variation of the genre the tradition of female leading actresses goes far back. Chinese actress Pei-Pei Cheng, for example, starred in Hong Kong hits like The Sword of the Yellow Tigress as early as the 1960s.
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“We must acknowledge film history and the actresses who paved the way for today’s film heroines“Writes a user. It’s quite possible that Lawrence has exaggerated her statement for the effect and did not consciously want to place herself before the merits of her older colleagues. Pointing out the importance of female stars in the action genre is important. Not to erase almost 60 years of film history, but also.
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