Jennifer Lawrence is no stranger to onscreen danger. But her latest film takes her into new territory – sexy, sexy territory.
Based on the novel by former CIA agent Jason Matthews, Red Sparrow stars Lawrence as a young Russian woman forced to become a spy.
She enrolls in the elite "Sparrow School," where she is trained in the subtle art of psychological manipulation. She learns to seduce and deceive and attack, to let herself go so that she can better serve her country.
It might sound like cinematic fantasy, not gritty reality. But as Matthews and others explain in the video above, there might be more truth to it than you think.
Red Sparrow is in theaters March 2.
