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Jennifer Lawrenceis setting the record straight.
“I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film,” theOscar winner, 32, told the outlet Thursday. “What I meant to emphasize was how good it feels.”
“And I meant that with Viola — to blow past these old myths that you hear about … about the chatter that you would hear around that kind of thing,” she added. “But it was my blunder and it came out wrong. I had nerves talking to a living legend.”
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“And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows through every single one of those beliefs 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 added during the conversation.
“One time I was quoted saying that Donald Trump was responsible for hurricanes,” Lawrence toldTHRThursday, speaking to how easily quotes can be misinterpreted. “I felt that one was ridiculous, that it was so stupid I didn’t need to comment.”
“But this one, I was like, ‘I think I want to clarify,’ " she added.
Lawrence took a moment during the Actors on Actors conversation to noteThe Woman King’sbonafide critical and financial success.
“We’re at, I think it’s 94 percent on Rotten Tomatoes? Sixty-six million domestic,” Lawrence said of Davis' success with the film. “I mean, it is just… [the notion thatWoman Kingwould not succeed] couldn’t have been more wrong.”
source: people.com
