*Jennifer Lopez hit up Jimmy Fallon last night and previewed the trailer for her upcoming feature “Hustlers,” co-starring Constance Wu, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Lizzo, Lili Reinhart, and Cardi B.
Watch it above.
As we previously reported, director Lorene Scafaria adapted the script from Jessica Pressler’s 2016 New York Magazine article “The Hustlers at Scores.” The true story centers on a group of former strip club employees that plot revenge against their Wall Street clients.
Pressler described the tale as “a modern Robin Hood story for you: a few strippers who stole from (mostly) rich, (usually) disgusting, (in their minds) pathetic men and gave to, well, themselves.”
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An excerpt from “The Hustlers at Scores” reads:
If the client Samantha reached out to expressed interest, she’d have Marsi or Karina meet him out. They’d wine and dine him, then the others would show up, and then, when he was drunk on alcohol and feminine attention, they’d steer him toward one of the clubs from which they had negotiated a lucrative percentage of his spending. Then they would proceed to run up his credit card as far as they could push it.
Of course, it didn’t always work. Sometimes they’d go through the whole performance and the guy would be too tired to go out; they would offer him drugs for extra energy, but he would be too lame to take them. In the face of such situations, Samantha had come up with the innovation that was making her rich: a special drink spiked with MDMA and ketamine.
The film will mark Cardi B’s feature debut.
Scafaria previously told Vulture that she “chased Cardi for two years,” while casting the project. Then she sent the former stripper a DM. “I got back a ‘We know, we’ll get back to you,” Scafaria said. “I didn’t know if I was talking to her or somebody else.”
Scafaria continued: “I have two phone numbers in my cell: Cardi 1 and Cardi 2. I’m not sure if either of them are actually Cardi.”
“Hustlers” will arrive in theaters on September 13, 2019.
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