Cardi B has joined the cast of Jennifer Lopez’s stripper film ‘Hustlers,’ where the rapper will make her big screen debut.<\/b>
\nCardi B is just winning at everything in life. She already has a hugely successful music career, a number one debut album, a Grammy Award, a precious baby daughterKulture and now on top of all of that she\u2019s going to be a movie star! In the ultimate girl power film, she\u2019s joined the cast of Jennifer Lopez\u2018s new movie Hustlers where Cardi will make her big screen debut. Playing a stripper won\u2019t be a stretch for the 26-year-old, who worked as an exotic dancer before rocketing to success with her rap career. JLo made the announcement on March 19 with an Instagram post declaring \u201cIt\u2019s official! Constance Wu and Cardi B are joining me in @HustlersMovie \u2013 coming soon to theaters!\u201d
The film is based on a 2016 New York magazine article about savvy strip club workers who scammed their sleazy Wall Street clients out of cash. The entire production is female empowered, as Lorene Scafaria wrote the screenplay and directs the film based on Jessica Pressler\u2018s magazine expose. Filming begins this week so Cardi and Crazy Rich Asians star Constance were either cast at the last-minute or their participation kept under wraps to insure buzz. JLo, 49, and Cardi have already worked together, as the \u201cMoney\u201d rapper appeared on Jennifer\u2019s 2018 single \u201cDinero.\u201d
Cardi has been very open about her strip club past and how it helped empower her. In a Dec. 2018 profile on CBS Sunday Morning by reporter Maurice DuBois, they visited Brooklyn\u2019s Lust club where she once worked. \u201cA lot of women here, they taught me to be more powerful,\u201d she revealed. \u201cI did gain, like, a passion and love [for] performing. It made me feel pretty\u2026 I\u2019m glad for this chapter in my life. A lot of people always want to make fun of me \u2014 \u2018Oh, you used to be a stripper!\u2019 \u2014 I don\u2019t ever regret it, because I learned a lot. I feel like it matured me. My biggest ambition was money. That\u2019s what these women put in my head: nothing is important but the money.\u201d<\/p>\n