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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Hustlers

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

One of our favorite movies of the last few years is now streaming on Hulu. Hustlers is based on the true story of a group of women who danced at a strip club together and later drugged and scammed some of their wealthy Wall Street customers. Directed by Lorene Scafaria, the film stars Jennifer Lopez as their ringleader Ramona, Constance Wu as her protégé Destiny — and also features Cardi B and Lizzo. In this encore episode, we're revisiting our conversation about Hustlers.

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One of our favorite movies of the last few years is now streaming on Hulu.

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Husslers is based on the true story of a group of women who danced at a strip club

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together and later drugged and scammed some of their wealthy Wall Street customers.

0:17.8

It stars Jennifer Lopez as their ringleader Ramona and Constance Wu as her protégé

0:22.2

destiny.

0:23.2

It also features Cardi B and Lizzo and it's directed by Lorraine Scafaria.

0:28.7

And we thought we'd revisit our conversation about this very enjoyable movie.

0:32.7

I'm Linda Holtz.

0:33.7

And I'm Stephen Thompson in this encore episode of NPR's Pot Culture Happy Hour.

0:38.2

We are talking about Husslers.

0:45.0

Welcome back.

0:46.0

You just met NPR music Stephen Thompson also with us as Glenn Weldon of the NPR Arts desk

0:50.1

Hygline.

0:51.1

And in our fourth chair today we're incredibly happy to be welcoming back Christina Tucker

0:56.1

of the unfriendly Black Hotties podcast Hykristina.

0:59.6

Hello hello friends.

1:01.2

So I saw this in Toronto at the film festival.

1:04.7

It's now opening kind of right away which is sort of always a fun sequence to observe.

1:10.1

But Glenn you were in Toronto but didn't see it there.

1:13.5

What did you think of the film?

1:14.7

You know I think reasonable people can disagree about whether or not JLo deserves an Oscar

1:19.9

nomination.

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