In 2014, nearly 500 private photos of celebrities were stolen from 'the cloud' and leaked to the Internet. Most of the celebrities were women, and most of the photos contained nudity. (In some circles, the event was labeled "The Fappening.") The victims included several well known stars, like Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst and Jennifer Lawrence. Although the FBI caught the hackers and brought them to justice, it doesn't reverse the event, or its traumatizing effects. We know Jennifer Lawrence for her wisecracking, anything-goes persona. She never seems to hold anything back in interviews and killed it filling in a substitute talk show host for comedian Jimmy Kimmel. But although the Oscar-winning actress seems comfortable in any environment, she has not been comfortable playing sexier roles since the hacking. In December, Oprah interviewed J-Law for The Hollywood Reporter and she said, "I just thought, ‘I’ll never do that again.' I’ll never share that part of myself ever since it got shared against my will.'" [[youtubewidget||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmUL6wMpMWw]] But now she's reclaiming her sexuality in the upcoming spy thriller Red Sparrow. Jennifer plays Dominika Egorova, a Russian ballerina turned master spy, who seduces her targets, using her body as a weapon, for her first mission, she's assigned to target a CIA agent, and badass fights ensue. The challenging role required her to film erotic scenes - sometimes stripping completely nude. It was a difficult task, after having being violated by the hacking, but in an interview with TotalFilm, she says taking on the role helped her deal with the trauma. "My character is told to strip in front of the class, and I had to strip in front of a class and an entire crew. I worked myself up [about the scene], I was really nervous. But [director] Francis [Lawrence] made me feel so much more comfortable. Everybody made me feel like I had clothes on. And then when I finished, I just walked out feeling empowered. I felt amazing. It was never my choice for the world to see my naked body. I didn’t get to make that decision. In doing this film, in doing this for my art…I really felt, I still feel, empowered. I feel like I took something back that was taken from me." [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/RedSparrowMovie/status/960936141733048322]] The tagline for Red Sparrow is "Take back control," which is pretty appropriate. It must be a nightmare for your most intimate photos to to be swiped from your phone, and disseminated on the Internet, with strangers treating your body like their property. But by taking on this role, Jennifer Lawrence has taken a parallel story arc to her character, reclaiming her own personal power, and sharing her sexuality by choice. And nobody can hack into the cloud and take that feeling of empowerment away. In related news, Jennifer Lawrence teamed up with Adele and Cameron Diaz to protest at the Women's March...

It's hard to imagine what it would have been like to be one of the victims of the 2014 leaks, in which nearly 500 private photos of celebrities were hacked from their supposedly secure storage on the cloud and posted online for all to see. Eventually, the culprit was caught and punished for his actions, but that still left those photos spread across the internet, for anyone with access to the web on their phones or laptops able to find and share them with others.

Jennifer Lawrence was one of many women targeted and had to deal with a world that had seen an intimate photo of her - not exactly an easy thing to overcome when you're one of the most famous actresses in Hollywood. When she was later asked about how the ordeal made her feel, she described it as like being "gang-banged by the f***ing planet".

"There's not one person in the world that is not capable of seeing these intimate photos of me," she said on an episode of The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter Podcast. "You can just be at a barbecue and somebody can just pull them up on their phone. That was a really impossible thing to process."

However, in the four years since the event, she has found empowerment in a way many wouldn't have expected. In her latest movie, the spy thriller Red Sparrow, she has found a way to process the event by presenting her body and her sexuality on her own terms.

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Now, in a recent interview with Bill Whitaker on 60 Minutes, she explained how nerve-racking the nude scenes were to film, including one in which she was "really naked getting freezing water poured on me":

“I was terrified. I don’t think I have ever been so scared of doing a movie before in my life. I feel like something that was taken from me I got back and am using in my art.

“I mean it was empowering for me personally … I feel like I didn’t even really realize until I had finished that scene how much fear and insecurity and a complex of being judged had been following me for so many years.

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She went on to describe how the movie's treatment of women is vital given the current climate:

“I ended up thanking [director Francis Lawrence], which might sound crazy but also we’re talking about a world of deceit and corruption and abuse and abuse to women through the lens of a woman who regains her freedom through losing her intellect and I don’t think there is a better time for this movie than right now.”

The movie stars Lawrence as a Russian ballerina turned spy who is forced to use her body as a weapon in a mission involving a CIA agent. We can see how the finished product turns out when it's released on March 2.

As well as earning her stripes as a successful and respected actress in Hollywood, with four Oscar nominations and one win under her belt, Jennifer Lawrence also won over plenty of fans for her sense of humour and relatable comments that aren't often heard from the world's biggest stars. Her latest movie, Red Sparrow, is already causing a stir prior to its release. The spy movie sees Lawrence's ballerina recruited into a Russian intelligence service where she is "forced to use her body as a weapon", at least up until her first mission targeting a CIA agent begins to "unravel the security of both nations". [[youtubewidget||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQUBjoGm1ls]] Last week she sat down with Entertainment Tonight's Carly Steel at a roundtable for the upcoming film, where she talked about taking a break from acting to focus more on activism. Speaking about her intentions for the next year, she said: "I'm going to take the next year off. I'm going to be working with this organization as part of Represent.Us, trying to get young people engaged politically on a local level" "It doesn't have anything to do with partisan [politics]. It's just anti-corruption and stuff trying to pass state by state laws that can help prevent corruption, fix our democracy." The organization has already seen celebrity involvement before, but as she says, isn't about any one political faction, but an attempt to "bring together conservatives, progressives, and everyone in between to pass powerful anti-corruption laws that stop political bribery, end secret money, and fix our broken elections". But this isn't the first time Lawrence has pursued activism. [[facebookwidget||https://www.facebook.com/JenniferLawrence/photos/a.10151333496166793.1073741827.52528756792/10154990709171793/?type=3&theater]] Just last month she joined in the Women's March this January, sharing a photo on Facebook saying, and was also honored with the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at The Hollywood Reporter's 2017 Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast, where she spoke about women's rights. In her acceptance speech, she said: "It’s not easy to speak out. It’s not easy to face criticism on a global scale. But the fact is I have been given a platform, and if I don’t use it, then I don’t deserve it. This last year has been a trying and challenging time in our world and our industry specifically. Every day, we wake up to a myriad of headlines that deeply impact us, from around the globe." With Red Sparrow, the major element that has shocked many critics who've had the chance to see the movie is the amount of sexual content and full-frontal nudity on display. But as it turns out, the actress wasn't up for the fuss of repeatedly getting undressed and dressed for this scenes, instead being happy to walk around set in her birthday suit. "Everybody made me feel so comfortable that I probably at a certain point started making everybody else uncomfortable," she explained. "Because I'd be like, 'I don't want the robe. I'm hot. I'm eating.' Everybody's like, She needs to cover up." While I'm sure there were some on set who had no problem with this habit, it must have become pretty weird at times. The confidence required to stay naked with a large crew around you is next level. Red Sparrow hits theaters Friday, March 2.

Jennifer Lawrence's latest film Red Sparrow hit cinemas yesterday, and it continues to be a big talking point. It's the first movie in which the 27-year-old decided to bare all and do a nude scene, and everyone wants to know how the "relatable" actress feels about it.

Lawrence opened up about the insecurities she felt during filming, and like all of us, revealed that she's got certain parts of her body she feels most self-conscious about. She elaborated on this during a recent interview on Ellen, telling the television host what she was most nervous about when getting her kit off for the camera.

Ellen started off by saying that she and her wife Portia de Rossi loved the film, which is based on a Russian prima ballerina who becomes a secret service spy. Ellen recommended the audience see the thriller, before turning to Lawrence to ask her about her nude scene. After once claiming she would never be filmed naked in front of the camera, Ellen questioned the actress about what made her change her mind.

"I think I finally just got hot," Jennifer quipped, before answering the question more seriously. "To me, it was really just an amazing script and story," she explained. "I loved the character and I just didn't want to miss out on it because of like my weird insecurities so I did it and it was really lovely."

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She said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair that because it was her choice to go nude, rather than someone else's, it actually made her feel incredibly "empowered". Lawrence told Ellen that most of the crew she worked with on the Hunger Games was there, which was comforting for the actress. However, there was one insecurity in particular that was stressing her out.

"All of the crew were all from Hunger Games, they were very nice - they went in at 3 in the morning to set up heaters because it was a very Hungarian winter and I was always complaining about being cold.

"Then I came in and it was so toasty and warm and I was like 'What are you doing with this heat? My nipples are going to be huge!"

This incited hysterical laughter from Ellen and the audience, with Lawrence going on to say that the crew started panicking and saying that they didn't know what she wanted. She laughed that the crew said, "Jen, you can't diet anymore."

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The conversation then moved to the recent incident in which people pointed out how unfair it was that Lawrence wore a plunging black dress in freezing temperatures during a promotional event in London, while her male costars posing for the photo wore winter coats. Lawrence has since slammed criticisms, saying it was her choice not to wear a coat.

"It was a fabulous dress I wasn't going to cover it up in a f*****g coat," she told Ellen. "Also, I shoot in below freezing weather in record-breaking winters, I can stand outside for 90 seconds in a dress."

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Well, large nipples or not, we still love you, Jen.

After her nude photos were stolen and spread on the Internet, Jennifer Lawrence has felt uncomfortable taking "sexy" roles in films. But that's all changing with her upcoming movie Red Sparrow, in which she plays a badass Russian ballerina that uses her body as a weapon to seduce her targets. It's too bad Special Counsel Robert Mueller doesn't hire her. She could get Vladmir Putin to admit to stealing the 2016 U.S. election in five minutes.

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While attending the premiere of Red Sparrow in London, Jennifer was photographed wearing a velvet Versace gown with a plunging neckline and thigh high leg slit. The actress looked stunning as usual, but received a lot of criticism on social media. Brits noted the temperature was 37 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius). They wondered, man, isn't she cold? Why doesn't she wear a coat? When she posed with her male co-stars, they were bundled in multiple layers of clothing - jeans, long-sleeve shirts, jackets. In comparison, J-Law looked quite exposed. Give her your coat, you jerks!

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One person on Twitter joked that for "true equality," Jeremy Irons should pose for a photoshoot in assless chaps. (Ha!) And some people speculated that maybe Jennifer was "forced" to wear this skimpy dress by her corporate overlords, in yet another example of Hollywood sexism gone mad. "Wear that dress I like, Jenny," says the Perverted Movie Executive over the phone, breathing heavily. "Wear it to the premiere in London. Oh yeah. Yeah. That'll be nice. Uhhh."

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But it turns out this is much ado about nothing. In a Facebook post, Jennifer Lawrence responded to the controversy, calling it "utterly ridiculous" and "not feminism." She said she was "extremely offended" by the fashion criticism because what she wears is "her choice." "That Versace dress was fabulous," writes Jennifer. "You think I'm going to cover that gorgeous dress up with a coat and a scarf? I was outside for five minutes." You can read her full comments below:

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"Wow. I don't really know where to get started on this "Jennifer Lawrence wearing a revealing dress in the cold" controversy.

"This is not only utterly ridiculous, I am extremely offended. That Versace dress was fabulous, you think I'm going to cover that gorgeous dress up with a coat and a scarf? I was outside for 5 minutes. I would have stood in the snow for that dress because I love fashion and that was my choice.

"This is sexist, this is ridiculous, this is not feminism. Over- reacting about everything someone says or does, creating controversy over silly innocuous things such as what I choose to wear or not wear, is not moving us forward. It's creating silly distractions from real issues. Get a grip people. Everything you see me wear is my choice. And if I want to be cold THATS MY CHOICE TOO!"

So, some women just enjoy wearing glamorous, revealing dresses to movie premieres, and it's worth any potential discomfort due to the temperature. I'm sure if Jennifer wanted to show up bundled in a warm winter coat like Kenny in South Park, that would have been fine as well. And if it was socially acceptable for men to show up to movie premieres in glamorous, revealing dresses, maybe they would have braved the cold for a fabulous gown like Jennifer. But I agree with the person on Twitter - for the next Red Shadow photoshoot, Jeremy Irons should show up in assless chaps. The photos would be priceless.

Red Sparrow has barely been in theatres for a week and it's already made a number of headlines - though most of those have been down to Jennifer Lawrence. In the film, the 27-year-old actress plays Dominika Egorova, a Russian "Red Sparrow" who is tasked to use her body as a weapon in dealings with the CIA.

Obviously, the chance to see J-Law in her birthday suit has been a huge selling point for the film, and the actress herself has opened up about the difficult experience of shooting the nude scenes. However, because of this, the film is rated R in the USA, and a 15 in the UK - but it was almost an 18.

Francis Lawrence, who directed the movie, recently revealed that it was one scene in particular that tipped the rating over to an 18, and so he made the decision to cut it in order to make the film more accessible to a wider audience.

"It's the only edit I made for any territory," Lawrence said in an interview with Digital Spy. "They said, 'Hey, if you just lose a little bit in this one scene, you can get this rating, which will help financially'."

But what exactly was so bad about it that it bumped up the whole film from a UK 15 rating to an 18? Well - despite the sexual nature of the film - it was actually a few frames of gratuitous violence that had caused the issue. Describing the action, Lawrence said:

"It's the first scene in the hotel where [Dominika Egorova] goes to visit Ustinov (Kristof Konrad) and she's up there, and he gets garrotted and the garrotte starts to cut into his neck and it starts to drip quite a lot of blood and it starts to drip down onto her chest and neck, and we trimmed that down by just a couple of shots and shortened it, and that's it."

When asked if he regretted having to lose the scene, Lawrence insisted that it wasn't a big deal.

"That didn't bother me at all. If suddenly, to get this one jump in rating I was having to cut a lot of things, if it started to feel like it was really going to augment the tone of the movie and the feel of the movie and the dynamics of the movie, I wouldn't have done it.

"But to really pinpoint a couple of shots and say shorten a few of these things, I was 100% fine with that."

The film was new territory for Lawrence, who - until recently - was best known for her roles in The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook. At first, she was hesitant about the nudity, but she soon used it to her advantage.

"I realized there’s a difference between consent and not. I showed up for the first day and I did it and I felt empowered," she said. "I feel like something that was taken from me, I got back. It’s my body, it’s my art, and it’s my choice. And if you don’t like boobs, you should not go see ‘Red Sparrow.'"

So, if nudity and violence (but not garrotting) are your sort of thing, definitely give Red Sparrow a watch.