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Jennifer Lawrence shared her thoughts on the history of female-led action movies in a new interview, but the \u201cHunger Games\u201d star is getting some flack for not quite getting it right.\n <\/p>\n

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The Oscar winner spoke with fellow actress Viola Davis in an interview for Variety published on Wednesday, in which she mused on the past state of action movies with a female lead.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cI 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 \u2013 because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot Identify with a female lead,\u201d Lawrence told Davis, who this year starred in her own action-heavy movie, \u201cThe Woman King.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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The \u201cSilver Linings Playbook\u201d actress went on to say that it makes her \u201cso happy every single time\u201d she sees a movie that proves women can indeed occupy those roles in movies.\n <\/p>\n

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People on social media were quick to point out, however, that Lawrence was far from the first female action hero, with many tweets referencing Sigourney Weaver in the \u201cAlien\u201d franchise, Linda Hamilton in the \u201cTerminator\u201d movies and Pam Grier in films like \u201cFoxy Brown\u201d \u2013 all of which predate \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d franchise. (The first movie, based on the popular YA series of novels, came out in 2012, while the last movie was released in 2015)\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is untrue that no one had ever put a woman in an action movie before Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Hunger Games,’\u201d Franklin Leonard, founder of The Black List, a platform that helps film and TV writers get their screenplays read by influential Hollywood figures, said, responding to a clip of the interview on twitter<\/a>. \u201cIt is absolutely true that Hollywood had and has a real bias against women driven action movies because of this ridiculous belief about who identifies with whom.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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Other examples brought to light in comments on Twitter and beyond pointed to Michelle Yeoh in \u201cCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon\u201d and other films, Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez in the \u201cResident Evil\u201d franchise, Uma Thurman in \u201cKill Bill\u201d and Angelina Jolie in the \u201cTomb Raider\u201d movies.\n <\/p>\n

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CNN has reached out to representatives of Jennifer Lawrence for clarification on her statement.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n