Jennifer Lawrence Clarifies Remark About Female-Led Action Movies: “It Came Out Wrong” | THR News - video Dailymotion

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The Oscar winner, currently promoting her A24/Apple drama 'Causeway,' tells The Hollywood Reporter what she meant to say in her recent conversation with Viola Davis.

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00:00Jennifer Lawrence is clarifying remarks she made about female-led action movies

00:04during Variety's Actors on Actors video series.

00:07During the interview where she was in conversation with Viola Davis,

00:11the actress said,

00:12Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, Lawrence said,

00:30Speaking of the way quotes can be misconstrued or taken out of context by the media,

00:51Lawrence added to THR,

01:00Elsewhere during the interview, Davis had shared her excitement about her starring role in Sony's The Woman King,

01:09a film she also produced and which features an ensemble cast of black women.

01:14Viola also expressed the skepticism that she felt that a movie like this would ever come to fruition.

01:19When have I ever seen anything like The Woman King?

01:22What studio is going to put money behind it?

01:24How are they going to be convinced that black women can lead a global box office?

01:28Lawrence responded about the film's success,

01:30I think it's 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, 66 million domestic.

01:35I mean, it's just, it couldn't have been more wrong.

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