Trivia
Red Sparrow
Directed by Francis Lawrence · starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton and Matthias Schoenaerts
- 4 facts
- 2017
Red Sparrow: trivia
All 4 facts
- 1
Based upon a novel
The film is based on a 2013 novel of the same name by retired CIA operative Jason Matthews. Before the novel was even finished, Matthews sold the film rights for a seven figure sum. The novel is the first book in a trilogy.
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Ready for the action
To prepare for the role, Jennifer Lawrence did ballet and practiced a Russian accent for four months. Lawrence told she spent three hours a day for four months working with the Hollywood ballet instructor Kurt Froman. She said it was difficult because she had never wanted to dance ballet.
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Dance double
American ballet dancer Isabella Boylston was Jennifer Lawrence's dance double in the movie.
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1,2,3 Fight
The actress Jennifer Lawrence got into a bar fight while filming this movie in Budapest, she was drunk.