Since her breakout role as Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games," Jennifer Lawrence has been outspoken about body image. But in a new conversation with Viola Davis, the "Causeway" actor shared that she was asked to lose weight for the lead role.
"Those books were huge, and I knew that the audience was children. I remember the biggest conversation was, 'How much weight are you going to lose?'" the Oscar winner told Davis in an interview published Wednesday as part of Variety's "Actors on Actors" series.
For Lawrence, "The Hunger Games" was a major moment for breaking barriers and bringing strong women to the screen. She told Davis that "nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn't work" before the hit YA action series, which was based on Suzanne Collins' book franchise.
