Thongs, tattoos, and a lip piercing didn't stop Jennifer Lopez's dedication to playing a stripper in Hustlers.
"I didn't know anything about it ... I just knew that I wanted to make it," he recalls."For the first time in my career, I read a script where women weren't defined by their relationships to men or breakups or falling in love or anything like that. It was just a story about complex women in the way that I know all the women in my life to be. It was about their friendships, professions and mistakes, and I just loved that."Oh, I better buckle up.
What does Ramona look like? Are there tools in the J.Lo toolkit that can be utilized for Ramona, or are we scrapping all of those and creating this new person? "I knew, reading the script, that the opening number was going to be such an iconic moment, so we really needed to create this unique universe in which Destiny [Wu] is enthralled by this woman," Travers says. "Ramona doesn't just get up on the pole and do a little dance; it's a full act for her. We wanted to show that Ramona has invested in her costumes and she's created this experience for the room.
"I said to her, 'Once you're in, you're in.' Like, we have to sew you in, get the shot and then we'll cut you out of this," he adds."There's some tape, some cleverly positioned stitches and then one incredibly nervous costume designer behind the camera sweating until it's over."The use of silver wasn't the only nod to J.Lo's real-life style, however.
"I just thought it'd be wrong for this character not to do that," he adds."The furs are a collection of vintage pieces, there are faux pieces mixed in that look like the real thing. Ultimately, it serves my point in terms of storytelling, just about … there's a little bit of cruelty involved there. It just kind of speaks to Ramona's nature of wanting to project this image of glamour and luxury.
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