She recently clarified her claim that she was the first-ever woman to be cast as the lead of an action movie despite the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Angelina Jolie heading franchises long before her.
Jennifer Lawrence claims she has seen ‘hissy fits’ thrown by men while on movie sets, during a Hollywood Reporter roundtable panel via Page Six.
‘I’ve worked with Bryan Singer. I’ve seen emotional men. I’ve seen the biggest hissy fits thrown on set,’ the 32-year-old said on the panel.
The latest: She recently clarified her claim that she was the first-ever woman to be cast as the lead of an action movie despite the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Angelina Jolie heading franchises long before her. Jennifer Lawrence claims she has seen ‘hissy fits’ thrown by men while on movie sets, during a Hollywood Reporter roundtable panel via Page Six; seen November 19, 2022 in LA
The actress said its been ‘incredible’ working with female directors in comparison to male ones: ‘There were no huge fights.’
Jennifer explained that it feels like everything flows better on set with a female director.
‘The schedule made sense. There were no huge fights. If an actor had a personal thing and wanted to leave early, instead of going, “Oh! Well, we’d all love to leave early!” we’d put our heads together and go, “OK. How can we figure this out?'” she added, via the outlet.
Jennifer continued: ‘[Lila Neugebauer’s] my third female director and they are the calmest, best decision-makers I’ve ever worked with. I absolutely love working with female directors.’
Her words: ‘I’ve worked with Bryan Singer. I’ve seen emotional men. I’ve seen the biggest hissy fits thrown on set,’ the 32-year-old said on the panel; seen November 19, 2022 in LA
Jennifer worked with Bryan Singer on the X-Men franchise.
The troubled director has been hit with allegations of engaging in sexual encounters with underage boys, something which he has denied via his lawyer.
Jennifer’s panel appearance comes after she walked back her recent claim that she was the first-ever woman to be cast as the lead of an action movie despite the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Angelina Jolie heading franchises long before her.
In a statement to THR, the Academy Award-winner said her remark ‘came out wrong’ and that meant to express how ‘good it feels’ to be feminine force in a male dominated genre.
Feels good: In a statement to THR, the Academy Award-winner said her remark ‘came out wrong’ and that meant to express how ‘good it feels’ to be feminine force in a male dominated genre. She was referring to her career-making role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games films
‘That’s certainly not what I meant to say at all. I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film,’ began Jennifer, who famously played female protagonist Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012).
‘What I meant to emphasize was how good it feels. And I meant that with Viola [Davis] — to blow past these old myths that you hear about … about the chatter that you would hear around that kind of thing.
Icon: Jennifer’s casting in the film follows a succession of iconic female action heroes who have starred in hugely successful films pre-2012 – notably Sigourney Weaver who played Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise (pictured)
Say what? Milla Jovovich starred as Alice in the Resident Evil films, starting in 2002 (L) while Angelina Jolie (R) played Lara Craft in the Tomb Raider films, first released in 2001
‘But it was my blunder and it came out wrong. I had nerves talking to a living legend,’ Jennifer concluded.
She originally made the bizarre claim during a sit-down with fellow Oscar winner Viola Davis as part of Variety’s Actors on Actors series, which was released last week.
The mother-of-one, who went on to play Katniss in four films, revealed that executives were concerned that boys ‘wouldn’t be able to identify’ with a female lead.
Not the first! Linda Hamilton played Sarah Connor in 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Another one: Uma Thurman was the female action star when she played The Bride in the Kill Bill films – the first chapter of which was released in 2003
Her casting in the film follows a succession of iconic female action heroes who have starred in hugely successful films pre-2012 – notably Weaver who played Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, Jolie who portrayed Lara Croft in two Tomb Raider movies, Uma Thurman in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill series and Milla Jovovich as Alice in the Resident Evil films.
Discussing the early days of The Hunger Games, Jennifer said: ‘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,’ she said.
She won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Katniss in the film Hunger Games film, which was followed by 2013’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2, released in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Jennifer won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Katniss in the film Hunger Games film, which was followed by 2013’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2, released in 2014 and 2015 respectively
Source: dailymail.co.uk
