Exclusive: Hustlers writer-director Lorene Scafaria talks pole dancing, Cardi B. and the upcoming awards season.
," and then as a director, when she convinced the powers that be that she should be the one to helm it. In the end, Scafaria made a film about more than stripping and scamming;is about that, sure, as much as it's about the 2008 financial crisis, the gender pay gap, race and class and sociopolitical status, the American Dream and the intricacies of female friendship. It's smart and sexy and now a bona fide Oscars contender.
I was really excited to explore this world from the dancer's perspective. Because I felt like we'd seen so many scenes in strip clubs and so few stories have been told from their points of view. So, I was really excited to just walk in their shoes and capture that feeling of going from the locker room out onto the floor.
That was how we felt. With all the themes of control -- there are obviously more vulnerable moments than others for the character -- but a scene like that where she's in total control and she's in control of all of us. She's hustling all of us in that moment. So, the camera is very much dictated by what Ramona wants.
But I gave everybody that room and they're all amazing improvisers and made the lines their own. Lizzo and Keke and Jennifer, really everybody kept it alive. But to Cardi's credit, she played a part. She read scripted lines of dialogue. I want to give her credit for improvising, but I also feel like it's really worth noting how much she played Diamond. She based Diamond on a girl she used to dance with. She really played a part and really stepped into the time period, too.
Having J.Lo and Cardi and Lizzo in the same movie, did you ever discuss having them record a song for this?
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