Into the world of espionage & seduction
Time to meet brutally badass spies as Jennifer Lawrence brings to life the most fearless and most astute heroine on the big screen in the latest adult spy thriller, Red Sparrow. In the movie, Jennifer takes on the role of prima ballerina, Dominika Egorova, turned Russian spy and forced into the world of deception and seduction to survive.
Red Sparrow is directed by Francis Lawrence, whose credits include global blockbuster films such as Hunger
Games and Constantine, composed of an impressive ensemble that includes Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling, Matthias Schoenaerts, Joel Edgerton and Joely Richardson.
Jennifer, who worked with Francis in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2, joined the cast as Dominika early on in the process. “Francis had introduced me to the story on the press tour for the last Hunger
Games movie,” shares the actress. “She’s really been put into a position of survival from a very young age. When I first read the script and we talked about it, the Sparrow School scenes were terrifying. It was going to be my first time really going… um, the full Monty if you will, but then after doing it, there’s something that felt so freeing about it.”
As with Dominika, the audience meets Nate at a crossroads, when a botched hand-off gets him removed from his assignment. “He’s fallen from grace early in his career, and he gets a second chance to come back,” says Joel Edgerton of Nate.
Jeremy plays Korchnoi, a decorated general of the SVR. He explains what attracted him to the role: “It was one of the best scripts I had read for a long time. I’d never made a spy movie before. This was a real page turner of a script, and I never quite knew where I was, and who I was believing.”
Matthias, who portrays Dominika’s Uncle Vanya, jumped at the opportunity to work with, as he puts it, “an enormous bunch of immensely talented people.” On Vanya’s relationship with Dominika, he says, “We learn he had a very complicated relationship with her dad that passed away.”
Charlotte is Anna, or Matron, as the students at the Sparrow School know her. “It was a beautifully crafted character,” she says. “Matron is someone very committed to the state, committed to what Communism means. She is very much about discipline, about order and about having faith in a higher purpose rather than just oneself and one’s little life, but to actually give over your life to a higher purpose.”
Red Sparrow opens Feb. 28 in Philippine cinemas nationwide from 20th Century Fox. Follow 20th Century Fox (PH) on Facebook. Rated R-16 (no cuts) by the MTRCB.