When Jennifer Lopez and fiancé Alex Rodriguez showed up at a New York strip club in early 2019, Lopez kept a low profile, but asked the strippers to head her way.
One of them offered her a lap dance.
“I was like, ‘No, I just want to talk to you,” Lopez recalled in a recent interview, sitting in a room at Moma while Academy viewers watched her buzzy turn in “Hustlers.” “I hadn’t really been to strip clubs, so it was a whole new experience for me.
I just asked them what it was like, when they come in, what their day-to-day was like, why they did things.
Did they enjoy it?” Then she sat back and watched.Lopez’s research for “Hustlers,” director Lorene Scafaria’s sizzling depiction of the real-life strippers who wound up drugging private clients and draining their bank accounts, has been well documented; it’s
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