Jennifer Lawrence’s boldest on screen performance in Red Sparrow
In Red Sparrow, a film adaptation of Jason Matthews’ 2013 novel, Jennifer Lawrence’s ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to the “Sparrow School”, a Russian intelligence service training unit where operatives are forced to use their bodies as a weapon.
In her first mission, Lawrence’s agent is sent to make contact with a CIA officer in the hope of discovering the identity of a mole.
SVR operatives like Egorova are capable of seducing their targets with s-*-*x peonage. She excels at this type of intelligence-gathering approach. As you’d expect, there are a number of moments when Lawrence is required to either take her clothes off, partake in some form of s-*-*x, or both.
Film critic Manohla Dargis found the film to be “preposterously entertaining” and credited its success to Lawrence’s performance, writing in The New York Times that “like all great stars, [she] can slip into a role as if sliding into another skin, unburdened by hesitation or self-doubt.”
