To effectively portray veteran stripper Ramona Vega in Hustlers, Jennifer Lopez not only learned to pole dance, but also went on a research trip to a strip club with the help of her ex-fiancé, Alex Rodriguez.
Lopez revealed on Late Night with Seth Meyers, “He [Rodriguez] “Very good information from your end,” Lopez shared. “That’s how it opens up. I said I’m doing this movie Hustlers and I play a stripper and I have to visit some strip clubs, and she said, ‘Really? I will go with you, I know everything.”
“She’s obviously an incredible dancer, but she’s trained very hard for this. Pole dancing is like nothing else. It requires muscles you didn’t know you had. So we treated it a bit like a sports movie,” said Hustlers director Lorene Scafaria. vulture,
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The director joked, “She and Alex went to a strip club and she was able to give me some information.”
JLo reveals how she did her own stunts
Lopez decided to perform her own stunts during the film’s demanding dance sequences. “I said, ‘Please take a close-up of my face, even though I look like a bat hanging down, please make sure they know it’s me, so they don’t think it’s a stunt double,'” she Said. In an interview with E! news. “A big advantage is that we’ll have a pole in our master bedroom for six months,” Rodriguez said jokingly about his training.
“In front of all those men, about 300 extra people hooting and hollering, it was a whole new feeling to come out practically naked and dance for money. There’s something liberating and empowering about it, but you’re really there physically, emotionally and psychologically,” JLo explained. Irish Times,
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Although she did not receive an Oscar nomination, Lopez was proud of her work. “I made Hustlers with no money and I produced it and I thought it could be a great movie. And you know, if it wins, I win,'” she told Variety.
