Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role 2013
Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook 2013
SEX WORKER ROLE
Dominika Egorova in Red Sparrow 2018
Character Is A Spy Seductress (aka Honeypot)
Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow 2018
The plot of this film seems to have been taken straight out of the 1980s TV movie “Secret Weapons” (as discussed in the Geena Davis entry). The film “Secret Weapons” transforms impoverished Russian women into the ideal American girl who lives next door. They attend a “sex school” that trains them to seduce the enemy, acquiring skills to wield sex as a weapon. Their ultimate objective is to seduce their adversary and steal confidential information. “Red Sparrow” (based on the best-selling novel by Jason Matthews) seems to have lifted the same premise from the film “Secret Weapons.” Jennifer plays a Russian spy seductress. But here she falls for her mark, a CIA officer. Now, she finds herself torn between two worlds; will she choose to become a double agent?
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