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    Constance Wu fought for 'Hustlers.' But the spotlight is the real challenge

    by Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times Sep 06, 2019 6 minutes

    It's a chilly night on the rooftop of a New York City strip club when four words entice Constance Wu's newbie dancer Destiny into the maternal, couture-lined fold of Jennifer Lopez's glamorous Ramona in "Hustlers": "Climb in my fur."

    Alas, Destiny's hunger for cash and connection has a cost in the true crime female empowerment movie of the season, opening Sept. 13 after a world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival the weekend prior, in which a stilettoed sisterhood of ex-strippers scheme to steal from their Wall Street clients after the 2008 financial crisis. (The real-life tabloid-ready tale ended in arrests, as documented in the 2015 New York Magazine article on which "Hustlers" is based.)

    To fans who know Wu best from television, playing an exotic dancer-turned-criminal might seem like quite a detour from Jessica Huang, the suburban sitcom mom she's played for five seasons on ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat." It's only her second lead film role after portraying plucky rom-com heroine Rachel Chu in last summer's

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