"I know that I am not the only woman who has ever led an action film," she continued. "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."
In the original conversation with Davis, Lawrence mentioned how female protagonists were not as valued in the past because "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," she shared. "To keep certain people in the same positions that they've always been in."
