Jennifer Lawrence says there had not been an action movie with a female lead before her casting in The Hunger Games franchise.
According to Jennifer Lawrence, action movies sorely lacked female leads before her casting in The Hunger Games. Lawrence got her big break when she landed her first Oscar nomination for 2010's Winter's Bone. Shortly after, she was cast as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is based on a popular book series by Suzanne Collins. The film was a massive hit, sparking a franchise that would ultimately see Lawrence playing the character through three more sequels.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY In a candid conversation between Lawrence and Viola Davis from Variety, Lawrence made a shocking statement about female leads in action films. While discussing Viola's work in The Woman King, Lawrence remarked that "nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie" before The Hunger Games. She elaborates on how people are often defined by gender, pigeonholing them into certain types of roles.
"Goodbye! I want to circle back to you being “The Woman King.” 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.
One of the most notable examples is Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, which began in 1979. Weaver played the character through four films in the series, proving to be a formidable lead while taking on the horrific Xenomorphs. By that point, the Underworld franchise had also seen Kate Beckinsale front two films, playing a highly skilled vampire known as a Death Dealer.
Since the time of The Hunger Games, it's safe to say that there has been a rise in the number of female-led action films, correcting a long-standing gender bias. Recently, Gunpowder Milkshake featured an all-female cast of assassins with Lena Headey and Karen Gillan; Charlize Theron starred in The Old Guard. Mary Elizabeth Winstead led the film, Kate. Maggie Q starred in The Protégé and Viola Davis in The Woman King.
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