How Jennifer Lopez (JLo) pulled off her show-stopping pole dancing sequence in Hustlers
It's no small feat for dancers to condense their years of training into a few months to teach an actor their craft. But it is helpful when your student is Jennifer Lopez.
To get there, Sapakie, whose background includes aerial acrobatics and more than two decades of pole dance experience, worked with Lopez for two and a half months prior to filming, to train the star for her dazzling intro scene . “We listened to a lot of different stuff when we were training, some just to get the vibe and [get] comfortable with the movement,” says Sapakie. As filming approached, Lopez and Sapakie would practice the routine to several songs that were in consideration for the sequence, including British singer Raign's cover of Chris Isaak’s“[The song] feels so deep and growly and powerful, and the vocal is this smooth sensual sound. That felt like it really fit,” Sapakie says.
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