Cardi B was an ex-stripper and reality show star two years ago who hoped to get a music career going. She has since become one of the greatest stars of rap, scored three # 1 singles, released the best rap album of 2018, Started her first tour of the arena, got married and gave birth to her first kid.
She discovered the moment to make her feature-film debut in the middle of all that somehow. Cardi is one of Hustlers' stars, a fresh stripper-revenge heist movie, as reported earlier.
As it turns out, the Hustlers cast includes quite a few musicians. Cardi costars alongside Lizzo, Keke Palmer, and Jennifer Lopez. All of them appear alongside non-musicians Constance Wu, Julia Stiles, and Lili Reinhart. Today, the first trailer for the movie comes out. It’s set to Cardi’s “Money,” and it mostly focuses on Lopez and Wu. Cardi herself only appears in a couple of quick shots, so we can’t really comment on her acting yet. But if there was any role that Cardi B was born to play, you’d think this would be it.
The movie is based on “The Hustlers At Scores,” a 2015 article from The Cut, about a group of women who stole from rich Wall Street types while working as strippers. This is a great idea for a movie! And it looks extremely entertaining. Check out the trailer below.