According to an exclusive interview posted Tuesday on The Hollywood Reporter website, Jennifer Lawrence -- a liberal actress who played heroine Katmiss Everdeen in the four-part Hunger Games series of science-fiction movies -- has been chosen to portray Marita Lorenz in Marita, a “romantic spy drama” that will focus on the German-born woman who was sent to Cuba to assassinate Fidel Castro but instead fell in love with the dictator.
In the real world, Lawrence has not been shy when discussing her liberal philosophy, which led her to state during an article on the Entertainment Weekly website in early October: "If Donald Trump becomes president, that will be the end of the world.”
The film will focus on how the “Jane Bond” character met and began an affair with Castro in 1959, when she was 19 years old. After becoming pregnant with the dictator's child, the woman had an abortion before leaving Cuba and joining anti-communists in the U.S., where she was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate Castro.
In 1960, she returned to Cuba to carry out her orders using poison pills but abandoned her mission after she fell in love with the dictator. She later had an affair with a Venezuelan tyrant, claimed to have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy and spied on diplomats for the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the 1970s.
Her account was later refuted, however, earning her the title of “a patron saint of conspiracy buffs.”
According to the article by Hollywood Reporter writers Borys Kit and Rebecca Ford, Lorenz has written two autobiographies and now lives in Maryland.
Kit and Ford also noted that “Cuba has been heating up as a story setting and possible shooting location since the embargoes were eased by President Barack Obama.”
During the past decade, Lawrence has had a successful career in both television and movies. Her first significant role was playing a lead cast member in the Turner Broadcasting System situation comedy The Bill Engyall Show.
She later moved into film and won accolades for her performance in the independent drama Winter's Bone, but her first major commercial success was playing the shape-shifting Mystique character in the fourth installment of the X-Men superhero franchise.
Of course, she is best known for portraying the heroic Katniss Everdeen character in the hugely popular Hunger Games series of movies. The first installment in 2012 set records for the biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel film.
In addition, the sequel -- entitled Catching Fire -- set the record in 2013 for the biggest opening weekend in the month of November, and the third installment, Mockingjay—Part 1, had the largest opening day and weekend of 2014.
While promoting the final film in the series during October of 2015, Lawrence didn't hold back when discussing the front-runner in the GOP race for president in the 2016 election.
According to an article by Kathy Ehrich Dowd, the actress declared: “If Donald Trump becomes president, that will be the end of the world."
Dowd stated that the 25-year-old Lawrence “apparently regards the possibility of a President Trump as well as her character Katniss Everdeen regards the ruthless President Snow (portrayed by Donald Sutherland) in The Hunger Games -- and openly wonders whether the Republican front-runner's campaign is indeed legitimate.”
"I genuinely believe that reality television has reached the ultimate place where now even things like this might just be for entertainment,” the liberal actress asserted. "It's either that, or it's Hillary's brilliant idea."
“Two of her Hunger Games costars seemingly agree,” Dowd noted.
"It's a publicity stunt," stated Josh Hutcherson, who played Peeta Mellark, the character who helped Everdeen defy the rule in the Games that there can be only one winner.
"It can't be real,” the actor asserted.
Meanwhile, Liam Hemsworth, who played Gale Hawthorne, another of Everdeen's friends, “doubled down” on Lawrence's prediction that a Trump presidency could lead to the apocalypse.
"I'll back you up on that,” Hemsworth said.
Dowd added regarding Lawrence: “While Trump's blunt style might appeal to some voters, his uncensored straight talk leaves her shaking her head."
“I was watching him on the campaign trail, and one guy said: 'I love Donald Trump because he's saying everything I'm thinking, and I just can't say it because of the PC factor,'” the actress noted.
“And I'm thinking, 'You are absolutely right. That's who I want representing my country, somebody politically incorrect. That will just be perfect,'” she stated sarcastically.
Even though Lawrence has won an Academy Award and three Golden Globes for her acting ability, she is nevertheless an obvious example of the liberal bias in the entertainment industry, and playing a dictator's lover who has an abortion is probably a dream role for her.
