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Actress Jennifer Lawrence has received heavy backlash after claiming she was the first-ever female action lead in movies when starring in The Hunger Games in 2012.

In an interview with Variety, Lawrence chastised Hollywood for picking men over women to star in lead action roles. 

The Academy Award-winning actress, however, went on to incorrectly claim that there had never been a woman who starred in such a role prior to her. 

'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,' Lawrence said.

Her statement brewed up a storm of criticism on social media slamming Lawrence for dismissing the score of actresses who have starred in hit action movies, such as Sigourney Weaver in 1979's iconic Alien. 

DailyMail.com Colluminist Meghan McCain was among the first to call out Lawrence, tweeting:'What about Ripley in Alien and Sarah Connor in Terminator? Because I was obsessed with them growing up.'