Go inside the drama behind the making of the drama Hustlers
magazine article by Jessica Pressler, the story revolves around a group of strippers in recession-era New York City who drugged and then robbed their Wall Street clientele. "After I read the article, I knew I wanted to direct it," says Scafaria, who spent months talking to strippers in Los Angeles and New York for her script.is a New York-based story of money, crime and greed, the film's producers, who include Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, first wanted to try for Martin Scorsese.
"It's gender as it relates to money," she says. "It's the kind of thing that I feel like we only talk about in terms of shopping and in terms of spending and we don't really talk about in terms of earning and in terms of surviving.", stripping doesn't have a storied cinematic history. There was a risk that the movie easily could fall prey to parody or, worse, vilification.
“It's really, really physical work. I don't think people think of women as blue-collar laborers,” explains the director. "It's muscles you generally didn’t know you had; it's bruises in places you didn’t think you could get."
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