Jennifer Lawrence claims 'nobody had put a woman in action movie lead' before The Hunger Games

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Jennifer Lawrence has bizarrely claimed she was the first woman ever cast in the lead of an action movie when she starred as Katniss Everdeen in the first Hunger Games film in 2012.The actress, 32, who played the rebel protagonist in four films, told Variety's Actors on Actors issue that executives were concerned that boys 'wouldn't be able to identify' with a female lead.Jennifer's casting in the film follows a succession of iconic female action heroes who have starred in hugely successful films pre-2012 - notably Sigourney Weaver who played Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, Milla Jovovich as Alice in the Resident Evil films, and Angelina Jolie who portrayed Lara Croft in two Tomb Raider movies.Discussing the early days of The Hunger Games, Jennifer said: '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.

PMC Privacy Policy Really? Jennifer Lawrence has bizarrely claimed she was the first woman ever cast in the lead of an action movie when she starred as Katniss Everdeen in the first Hunger Games film in 2012 (pictured)'And 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. 'To keep certain people in the same positions that they’ve always been in.' Jennifer won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Katniss in the film Hunger Games film, which was followed by 2013's The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and Part 2, released in 2014 and 2015.