Jennifer Lawrence bundled up against the December chill when she was spotted Thursday in New York City, where she lives.
The 32-year-old Oscar winner wrapped herself in a brown anorak and pulled on a burnt-orange knit cap to ward off the crisp cold air.
Her latest sighting comes after she walked back her recent claim that she was the first-ever woman to be cast as the lead of an action movie despite the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Angelina Jolie heading franchises long before her.
City girl: Jennifer Lawrence bundled up against the December chill when she was spotted Thursday in New York City, where she lives
In a statement to THR, the Academy Award-winner said her remark ‘came out wrong’ and that meant to express how ‘good it feels’ to be feminine force in a male dominated genre.
‘That’s certainly not what I meant to say at all. I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film,’ began Jennifer, who famously played female protagonist Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games (2012).
‘What I meant to emphasize was how good it feels. And I meant that with Viola [Davis] — to blow past these old myths that you hear about … about the chatter that you would hear around that kind of thing.
Legging it: The 32-year-old Oscar winner wrapped herself in a brown anorak and pulled on a burnt-orange knit cap to ward off the crisp cold air
‘But it was my blunder and it came out wrong. I had nerves talking to a living legend,’ Jennifer concluded.
She originally made the bizarre claim during a sit-down with fellow Oscar winner Viola Davis as part of Variety’s Actors on Actors series, which was released earlier this week.
The mother-of-one, who went on to play Katniss in four films, revealed that executives were concerned that boys ‘wouldn’t be able to identify’ with a female lead.
Sigourney who?: Her latest sighting comes after she walked back her recent claim that she was the first-ever woman to be cast as the lead of an action movie
Feels good: In a statement to THR, the Academy Award-winner said her remark ‘came out wrong’ and that meant to express how ‘good it feels’ to be feminine force in a male dominated genre. She was referring to her career-making role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games films
Her casting in the film follows a succession of iconic female action heroes who have starred in hugely successful films pre-2012 – notably Weaver who played Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, Jolie who portrayed Lara Croft in two Tomb Raider movies, Uma Thurman in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill series and Milla Jovovich as Alice in the Resident Evil films.
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.
‘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.
‘That’s certainly not what I meant to say at all. I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film,’ she said; Jennifer seen in November
‘To keep certain people in the same positions that they’ve always been in,’ she said.
She 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 respectively.
