Lawrence will play Marita Lorenz, who was once sent by the CIA to poison Castro.
After scoring her fourth Oscar nomination for Joy, Jennifer Lawrence is set to star in another biopic. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lawrence is set to play Marita Lorenz, the former lover of Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Marita.
Jennifer Lawrence is set to play Marita Lorenz in Marita.
The film has been pitched by Eric Warren Singer, co-writer of American Hustle, which earned Lawrence her third Oscar nomination in 2014. Singer is said to have spent months developing the project before bringing it to Lawrence, working with Scott Mednick and Andre Rouleau who will produce the film.
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According to THR, Sony Pictures ‘aggressively picked up the project in a competitive situation’, with interest from other studios including Warner Bros, Fox 2000, Annapurna and Paramount.
The film will centre on how Lorenz met and began her affair with Castro in 1959, just weeks after the Cuban Revolution ended. The affair began when Lorenz was just 19 years old, but their romance ended after she became pregnant and had an abortion.
Lorenz then left Cuba and joined anti-communists in the U.S., where later she was recruited by the CIA for an assassination mission. In 1960 she returned to Cuba to try and poison Castro on behalf of the CIA, but decided not to go through with it.
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Lawrence will next be seen in X-Men: Apocalypse, which will be her final appearance as mutant Mystique in the comic book franchise. She's also attached to space romance Passengers, where she will star opposite Chris Pratt and is currently writing a script with BFF Amy Schumer.
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