Inside Jennifer Lopez’s Impressive Pole-Dancing Tutorial In ‘Hustlers’
Huff PostConstance Wu and Jennifer Lopez in "Hustlers." STXfilms There’s no one best scene in “Hustlers.” Can you really say that Usher’s strip-club strut tops Jennifer Lopez dancing to Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”? STXfilms Johanna Sapakie, a choreographer who has a decade of aerial experience in Cirque du Soleil, gave Lopez a “crash course” in “all things pole” to perfect the “Criminal” arrangement and Ramona’s subsequent lecture. At the start of their collaboration, Sapakie told Lopez a version of what Ramona tells Destiny after the latter voices self-doubt: “Every woman can do this.” “I wanted something that clearly indicated that this is a woman that’s been doing this a long time,” Sapakie said. At 50 years old, Lopez is enjoying her fiercest role since 1998’s “Out of Sight,” underscoring a bewitching screen presence that never went away.