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Jennifer Lawrence is sparking backlash after falsely claiming to be the first woman in the lead of an action movie. <\/p>\n

Lawrence made the comments in a nearly 45-minute sit-down discussion with fellow actress and producer Viola Davis, published by Variety, in which they discussed acting, inequities within the industry and motherhood, among other topics. <\/p>\n

In the discussion, Lawrence, 32, said of the significance of her role playing protagonist Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games”: “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 \u2014 because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead,” she told Davis. <\/p>\n

Lawrence went on to say “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.” <\/p>\n

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Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games.”<\/span>Lionsgate<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Critics on social media quickly pounced on Lawrence’s comments, noting that several other women have starred as leads in action films \u2014 including Sigourney Weaver in the “Alien” films; Angelina Jolie in “Salt” and “Tomb Raider”; Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill: Volume 1” and “Kill Bill: Volume 2”; and Michelle Yeoh in several films, including “Supercop,” “Magnificent Warriors” and \u201cYes, Madam!\u201d <\/p>\n

variety appeared to delete<\/a> a tweet it had posted<\/a> promoting Lawrence’s comments after several Twitter users noted the inaccuracy of her statement. <\/p>\n

Others said while Lawrence’s comment was technically incorrect, she accurately pointed to a larger issue of gender bias in Hollywood. <\/p>\n

“It is untrue that no one had ever put a woman in an action movie before Jennifer Lawrence in Hunger Games,” Franklin Leonard, producer and founder of “The Black List,” a platform for film and TV writers, said in a tweet<\/a>. “It 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.”<\/p>\n

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NBC News has reached out to Lawrence’s representative for comment. <\/p>\n

Davis and Lawrence’s conversation comes on the heels of two recently released films in which they star as leads: “The Woman King,” featuring Davis as the leader of an all-female West African warrior unit, and “Causeway,” starring Lawrence as a US soldier who returns home from Afghanistan after suffering a traumatic brain injury. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n