Jennifer Lawrence to play 'real life James Bond' in Marita - a film about Fidel Castro's teenage lover

Marita Lorenz worked for the CIA, FBI and had a part to play in the assassination of JFK

Lawrence thanked the singer for the compliment (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images)

After transforming into Joy Mangano for David O. Russel’s Joy, Jennifer Lawrence has once again opted to play a real life woman.

This time, she’ll be tackling the Marita Lorenz - the teenage lover of Fidel Castro - in the upcoming film Marita, written by American Hustle scribe Eric Warren Singer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The German-born Lorenz, once described as the ‘real-life James Bond’, began an affair with the Cuban leader in 1959 when she was just 19-years-old.

She soon became pregnant, had an abortion, and left Cuba to join the anti-communists in the US where she was recruited by the CIA to assassinate Castro.

However, she failed to poison him, claiming she still loved Castro. Only a year later, in 1961, she had a fling with a Venezuelan dictator, eventually having his child.

Along the way, Lorenz was also said to have been involved with the assassination of US President JF Kennedy, worked for the FBI as an informant and wrote two autobiographies.

Sony has picked up Marita, which Lawrence is set to produce. No director has been attached to the project as yet.

The 25-year-old recently picked up her fourth Oscar nomination for her lead in Joy. You can next see her in X-Men Apocalypse, also starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Oscar Isaacs.