At tonight’s Deadline New Hollywood Panel at the Toronto Film Festival for the upcoming Jennifer Lopez feature Hustlers, the pic’s producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas gave high praise to S…
for finally making the edgy pic about the New York Scores strippers who turn the tables on their greedy Wall Street clients.
“Here we have a movie that was written and directed by this ferocious, fearless, beautiful woman [Lorene Scafaria] about ferocious, fearless beautiful women all who are complicated, and we’re pitching to primarily white men,” said Goldsmith-Thomas. “The note [STX] gave us was, ‘It’s great, could they drug the bad guys? Make one of the guys a rapist and drug him?’ I said, this is based on a true story, it’s really a slippery slope of the hustle and the American dream. We really want to explore the complications of that. To which [fellow producer] Jessica Elbaum said, ‘If we were makingwould you say that Leonardo DiCaprio just had to scam the bad people?'” added the producer.“[STX motion picture chair] Adam Fogelson didn’t say that.
Said Wu on what drew her to the role of Destiny, the protege stripper of Lopez’s Ramona who organizes the financial takedown of their clients “I was looking for a project about loneliness.Not because that I’m lonely, but being lonely is very pervasive in our culture because of social media. It might feel like a substitute version of connection, but it’s not….I didn’t think a project like this would come in the form of a stripper movie.
Goldsmith-Thomas recalled a line from the film “‘We’re all hustling.’ We’re all hustling right now. We hustled to get this movie made. I don’t know if there’s anything wrong or not, but a hustle is something that can get you where you need to go. Sometimes you go too far and that’s when you have to be judge, jury and executioner.”I think of the movie we made, and Lorene, Jessica and me going from board room to board room.
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