.jenyamato looks at how the music of 'Hustlers' helped bring its stripper antiheroine tale to life:
follows strippers who concoct a scheme to scam Wall Street clients for big sums using their wiles — and the way the world sees them — to their advantage.
“The Janet cues were the start of it,” said Scafaria, who wrote many of the songs heard in the film into her script and played them on set for her cast. She closes “Hustlers” out with another Jackson tune, “Miss You Much,” which takes on bittersweet meaning with the fate of Destiny and Ramona’s fractured friendship.“‘Miss You Much’ was always the bookend for me in that it represented everything ...
“Lorene said, ‘What about “Criminal” by Fiona Apple?’” Lopez said. “I was like, hmm, ‘I’ve been a bad, bad girl...’ [I said] ‘I love it, let’s do it! That’s exactly what [Ramona] is.’ So the first time you see her she’s dancing to ‘Criminal,’ it’s such a perfect thing.” But shooting before all the song rights were cleared required a leap of faith on Scafaria’s part. “And that’s why it was scary!” she laughed. “I’m playing ‘Gimme More’ in the Escalade with [Wu and Lopez] ... with just the hope that Britney would say yes.”Scafaria set her most ambitious sequence, in which authorities move in on the crime ring across various corners of New York City, to Lorde’s “Royals” despite being told getting the singer’s permission was a long shot.
Lopez, who also served as a producer on “Hustlers,” was instrumental in helping recruit cast members including Cardi B — whose “Money” has become a savvy anthem in the film’s marketing campaign — after Scafaria had tried to approach the rapper through Instagram. “It worked many years later once J. Lo called her up!” laughed Scafaria. Lizzo was another major recording artist the director says she lucked out in casting.
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