Jennifer Lawrence has revealed she was once punished on a film set for standing up to a director who “said something fucked up”.

Speaking as part of the annual Actress Roundtable organised by the Hollywood Reporter, Lawrence recalled her response to the incident with an unnamed director. “I said, ‘That’s sick, you can’t talk to me like that,’ and then I was punished,” says Lawrence. “I got afraid that I wasn’t going to be hired again.”

She says a producer even stepped in and cautioned her after she had stood her ground, telling her: “You know, we can hear you on the microphone, you’ve been really unruly.”

Other women on the panel chimed in, with Emma Stone agreeing that the ‘difficult’ label was one that haunted actresses. “I’m someone who holds in a lot and gets really nervous to speak,” Stone added. “We have to recognise that there are so many who haven’t told their stories yet.”

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