Jennifer Lawrence is a one-woman marketing machine for her new spy movie “Red Sparrow.”
During a recent visit to Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Lawrence did not speculate on the quality of her performance in the thriller, but gave the following reason why you should see it:
“Am I good in it? Who can say. I’m naked in the movie, so please go… I’m naked. There’s boobs. There’s murder,” the Academy Award winner told Maron.
Joking aside, Lawrence has been candid about her decision to perform nude in collaboration with her “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2” director Francis Lawrence.
“I realized that there was a difference between consent, and not and I showed up for the first day and I did it and I felt empowered,” she said recently, referencing her 2014 nude photo hack as transformative moment.
“I feel like something that was taken from me I got back and am using in my art,” she said.
More daunting then nudity, it seems, was her requirement to perform ballet.
Lawrence plays a Russian prima ballerina in the Fox project, recruited into a special military program where young soldiers are trained in the art of seduction. The actress spends the majority of her time plotting countermoves to costars like Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts and Charlotte Rampling — but was not spared a few days in a tutu.
“I’m the most ungraceful person,” Lawrence said. “The whole time, the second I got out of the costume I felt like Ace Venture in the f—ing combat boots in the mental hospital.”