People in Hollywood can be stupid and Jennifer Lawrence decided to prove it. 🙂 She did 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.
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1600521516109668354
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 📈✌️😎🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@TheRealFixNow) December 7, 2022
We read a lot of stupid stuff when we are trying to find stories to write about for Twitchy and we agree 100% it may have been the dumbest thing we read all day.
This is the kind of wild lie that Trump would tell. https://t.co/K0DDD3PM84
— Zito (@_Zeets) December 7, 2022
If someone who does not like Trump is willing to say this comment is on the level of a Trump lie, it had to be a pretty big one. Let us add this editor is not wading into the weeds of wether or not Trump tells big lies, we are just pointing out that the lie of Lawrence was obviously a big one if somebody who dislikes him is willing to put it on the same level. Don’t come after us bro. 🙂
https://twitter.com/SMmad90/status/1600535273573699584
Most users just began to give her lists or images of all of the AMAZING female action leads who came before her. Not just came before her but paved the way for her. We think that’s what angered people the most, is that many women had to pave a long hard road for her and she just kind of crapped on the efforts they put in ahead of her.
Cough, cough.
Besides of course Sigourney Weaver in Alien there were Mary Fuller, Helen Holmes, Helen Gibson, Ruth Roland, Pearl White, etc!
Turns out that Ms Lawrence is not very familiar with cinema history.
What do you reckon @MoviesSilently & @NitrateDiva ? https://t.co/nJ0T8aXjT5 pic.twitter.com/dSjYtSNV2W— Fake History Hunter (@fakehistoryhunt) December 7, 2022
how is it possible to be this wrong
has no one ever heard of Sigourney Weaver or Pam Grier or https://t.co/L0mQARbL7x
— Mike Petriello (@mike_petriello) 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
I’m sorry, what??? https://t.co/9a3D3ZWU5h pic.twitter.com/NF2J53pfjx
— John Carson (@John_Carson) December 7, 2022
Sigourney Weaver
Angelina Jolie
Uma Thurman
Linda Hamilton
Pam Grier
Milla Jovovich
Kate BeckinsaleGood grief. https://t.co/MwvXZQXCAR
— Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) 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
— Sisa (@TheTitanBaddie) December 7, 2022
Everyone’s 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
— William Friedkin Truths (@LazlosGhost) December 7, 2022
We too love to see the ‘actor brain” at work. it gives us some fabulous material to write about. 🙂
Keep up the great work Jennifer. We did love you in the Hunger Games, but sweetie, you were not the first.
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UPDATE:
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Variety deleted the tweet about the Lawrence quote but her quote is still in the story:
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