LOS ANGELES: Jennifer Lawrence, a Hollywood actress, has come under fire for saying there has never been a female action movie lead before her.

"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 identity with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead," actress Viola Davis said in an interview for Variety's Actors on Actors about female action heroes.

She said: "And every time one of those movies comes out, it just makes me so pleased because it disproves all of those myths and shows that they were all made up to exclude specific groups from the movies. to maintain certain individuals in their current roles." As The Black List publisher Franklin Leonard responded to the interview on Twitter by saying: "It is incorrect that no one has ever put a woman in an action movie until Jennifer Lawrence in 'Hunger Games,'" many people immediately disagreed with Lawrence.

Lawrence compared "Hunger Games" to Davis' most recent film, "The Woman King," and said, "And it just makes me so pleased every single time I see a movie come out that just breaks through every one of those beliefs and exposes that it is simply a lie to keep certain people out of the movies." "To maintain particular individuals in their current roles."

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