The cast and crew of ‘Hustlers,’ a movie about strippers in New York City,
hit the red carpet for the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and
their main message was the empowering experience of working on a female-led
project.
‘Hustlers’ stars Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Keke Palmer, Cardi B and
with a cameo from Lizzo. It follows a group of dancers at a strip club in New
York City, who come up with a less-than-legal way of making money from their
Wall Street customers after the stock market crash of 2008 dries up their
regular incomes.
Based on a true story, the film was written, directed and produced by
women.
To Wu, the female leadership in creating the movie was made all the more
important given the subject matter as the strippers are people “who society has
judged and marginalized, and we got the opportunity to humanize their stories.
The humanization of the strippers as characters was crucial to director
Lorene Scafaria, to just show that this is a job like anything else and they
are people trying to make ends meet and pay the bills.