{"id":1768129,"date":"2022-12-08T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768129"},"modified":"2022-12-08T16:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:18:29","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-facing-backlash-after-claiming-she-was-first-lead-female-action-hero-variety-deletes-tweet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jennifer-lawrence-facing-backlash-after-claiming-she-was-first-lead-female-action-hero-variety-deletes-tweet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence Facing Backlash After Claiming She Was First Lead Female Action Hero; Variety Deletes Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjennifer-lawrence-facing-backlash-after-claiming-she-was-first-lead-female-action-hero-variety-deletes-tweet-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1768129&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence is facing backlash after she falsely claimed that \u201cnobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie\u201d prior to 2012\u2019s \u201cHunger Games\u201d \u2014 and Variety has since deleted its tweet in which she made that claim.<\/p>\n<p>During a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/features\/jennifer-lawrence-viola-davis-action-heroes-motherhood-1235451405\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a> Actors on Actors interview, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jennifer-lawrence&#039;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">32-year-old<\/a> actress claimed she was the first woman ever to be cast in the lead role of an action film when she landed the part of Katniss Everdeen in the 2012 hit dystopian movie, which was not true, as previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jennifer-lawrence-claims-nobody-had-ever-put-a-woman-in-the-lead-of-an-action-movie-before-hunger-games-theres-just-one-problem-with-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember when I was doing \u2018Hunger Games,\u2019 nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn\u2019t work \u2014 because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead,\u201d Lawrence claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence spoke with fellow actress Viola Davis, who did not push back against the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users slammed the actress, noting all the famous female stars who had landed lead action roles for decades before Lawrence did, citing Sigourney Weaver in 1986\u2019s \u201cAliens,\u201d Angelina Jolie in 2001\u2019s \u201cLara Croft: Tomb Raider,\u201d and Uma Thurman in 2003\u2019s \u201cKill Bill: Volume 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/jennifer-lawrence-faces-backlash-claiming-190847716.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cShe [Lawrence] can\u2019t even really argue there was a regression before Hunger Games because female led action movies actually THRIVED in the 2000s with HUGE budgets. Franchises &#038; movie stars were made. Angelina, Uma, Lucy, Cameron, Drew, Milla, Kate etc. Without them she wouldn\u2019t be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSure glad nobody ever told that to Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton or Uma Thurman. They\u2019d be pretty upset,\u201d another user <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/07\/jennifer-lawrence-roasted-for-saying-she-was-1st-woman-action-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While another wrote, \u201cOh Jennifer, I love you like crazy, but did you never see any movies at all before you were hired for \u2018Hunger Games\u2019? I know there are some actors who never go to movies (Bob Hoskins was one, he never watched movies) but I would have thought you would have heard of, say, \u2018Kill Bill.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not long after, people noticed that Variety had deleted the tweet that included Lawrence\u2019s false claim.<\/p>\n<p>One person wrote, \u201cOver in Hollywood, [Variety]\u00a0deleted a tweet that highlighted a quote from actress Jennifer Lawrence. It was so untrue, that is brought a swarm of criticism. Not sure why Variety deleted it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over in Hollywood, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Variety<\/a> deleted a tweet that highlighted a quote from actress Jennifer Lawrence. It was so untrue, that is brought a swarm of criticism. Not sure why Variety deleted it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AVteN4BNMr\">pic.twitter.com\/AVteN4BNMr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Stinson (@jimstinson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimstinson\/status\/1600579176599273489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another person shared, \u201clol, Variety deleted the tweet because the Jennifer Lawrence quote was getting dragged so hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">lol, Variety deleted the tweet because the Jennifer Lawrence quote was getting dragged so hard <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bcuVZKIPa2\">pic.twitter.com\/bcuVZKIPa2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HashtagGriswold\/status\/1600544536568250378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the time of this publication, neither Variety magazine or Lawrence had responded to any of the claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence is facing backlash after she falsely claimed that \u201cnobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie\u201d prior to 2012\u2019s \u201cHunger Games\u201d \u2014 and Variety has since deleted its tweet in which she made that claim. During a\u00a0Variety Actors on Actors interview, the 32-year-old actress claimed she &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1634060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1634060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}