Everything was so glamorous and cool,” sighs “Hustlers” star Constance Wu of the last lucrative night her character spends working in the strip club before the 2008 stock market crash. The camera agrees. In slow motion, it gawks as 300 people collide like electrons. Men fling money, slide cash into spandex and gaze in awe at women who swing around poles, crawl on bar tops, stroke lapels, sit on laps and caress each other on stage. Usher even smacks Jennifer Lopez’s bottom.
“The great challenge was to make sure that this room felt alive and electric,” says writer/director Lorene Scafaria. To stage this scene, she needed to capture “the masculinity of it, and the energy and the exchange.” And to stage this scene safely — to control the chaos — she needed one more person: comfort consultant Jacqueline Frances, there to navigate the flying dollars and hyperactive hands and make sure every...
“The great challenge was to make sure that this room felt alive and electric,” says writer/director Lorene Scafaria. To stage this scene, she needed to capture “the masculinity of it, and the energy and the exchange.” And to stage this scene safely — to control the chaos — she needed one more person: comfort consultant Jacqueline Frances, there to navigate the flying dollars and hyperactive hands and make sure every...
- 12/4/2019
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
In many respects, Hustlers isn’t just a good film — it’s also a groundbreaking one. Based on a 2015 New York magazine piece by Jessica Pressler, Hustlers tells the story of Destiny (Constance Wu), a struggling dancer at the fictional strip club Moves trying to work her way up the totem pole. She befriends single mother Ramona (Jennifer Lopez), a much more established dancer who takes her under her wing. When the recession hits, the two team up to scam their Wall Street banker patrons, enlisting the help of other club employees in the process.
- 9/18/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
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