Sarahwrote earlier this weekaboutHustlers, the movie based onThe Hustlers at Scoreswho scammed the wealthy men patronising the establishment. With casting now complete, filming is underway – here’s Constance Wu in costme today in New York fully looking the part. This is not Rachel Chu. This is french manicures and eyelashes and tight pants and fur-trimmed cheap coats and chunky red highlights.
但我看着那粘合剂。
That’s probably her script, her notes, her workbook. And one of the photos stuck into the back flap – looks to me like it’s a shot of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Is it? Because my mind went right to PSH inBoogie Nights. Philip Seymour Hoffman was great in everything but, my GOD, he was f-cking unreal inBoogie Nightsas Scottie J. He was everyone who’s ever had a crush and been rejected as Scottie J. He broke our hearts as Scottie J. And when he’s by himself, sitting in the car, after Marky Mark lets him down, that scene is about as raw as it gets.
Maybe this has nothing to do with Constance’s preparation for her role inHustlers.Maybe that’s not even Philip Seymour Hoffman. But if it is, and if in some way PSH inBoogie Nightsis part of her character study or emotional tuning for the part, I’m now even more interested in this project – and I was already all the way in.
If you want to revisit it, if you have it in you today, and I get it if you don’t because this is, as they say, a gut punch, it’s worth the two minutes.
