Chris Addison The Hustle
1) – background information
Christopher David Addison (born 5 November 1971) is a British comedian, writer, actor, and director.
He is perhaps best known for his role as a regular panellist on Mock the Week. He is also known for his
lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4. Addison was born
in Cardiff, Wales, and moved with his parents to Worsley, Salford, England, when he was four. He was
educated at Manchester Grammar School, an independent school for boys in Manchester. At MGS
rather than playing cricket he played the game podex.[5] This was followed by the University of
Birmingham, where he studied English Literature with the original intent of becoming a theatre
director. After his directing plans did not work out, he drifted into comedy as an alternative creative
outlet. He currently lives in Bromley, South East London, with his wife and two children: a boy and a
girl.[17][18] He is a member of the Labour Party.
- name, age, nationality, family, education …
- career review (beginnig of his career as director, films).
In 2013, he began working as a director on Armando Iannucci's HBO sitcom Veep. He directed 13
episodes. In 2016, he won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy
Series and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a
Comedy Series. Alongside directing, he also served as executive producer in 2015. For this work on
Series 3, he and the other producers on the show received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy
Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. They won the award for Series 4 and 5.
In 2020, sitcom Breeders premiered on both US TV channel FX and Britain's Sky One. Breeders was
co-created by Addison, main co-star Martin Freeman and comedy writer Simon Blackwell and is based
on Freeman's own experience as a parent. Addison directed 6 episodes.
Addison directed the 2019 comedy The Hustle, starring Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway, a remake
of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), which in turn was a remake of Bedtime Story (1964).[12]
Addison is set to direct Ralph Fiennes playing George Frederick Handel in a period comedy-
drama, Hallelujah!
- director’s style and favorite genres
As he participated in comedy shows and is a comedian his 2 films were directed in comedy genre. We
can make a conclusion that it is his favourite genre.
2) – name, year, release, genre
The Hustle; 2019; may 10 2019; comedy
- Film crew and their work
In August 2016, it was announced that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was developing a female-centered
remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), which in turn was a remake of Bedtime Story (1964).
This time it was set to feature two con women, Rebel Wilson was announced as one of its stars.
[4]
. Jac Schaeffer wrote the updated script, with credit also going to the previous films'
screenwriters Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning, and Dale Launer.[4][5]
In January 2017, the working title of the film was revealed to now be Nasty Women, which was
retitled The Hustle with Anne Hathaway set as co-lead to Wilson.[6] In August of the same
year, Alex Sharp was cast to play a male lead in the film, a tech billionaire in his early 20s who
becomes the target of the wager between the two con-women.[7]
Principal photography began during mid-September 2017 at both Pinewood
Studios and Shepperton Studios in the UK,[8][9] with filming also taking place at the Farnborough
Airport.[10]
- Plot and characters
Two con women - one low rent and the other high class - team up to take down
the men who have wronged them.
Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive British woman who has a
penchant for defrauding gullible men out of their money. Into her well-ordered,
meticulous world comes Penny Rust, a cunning and fun-loving Australian woman
who lives to swindle unsuspecting marks. Despite their different methods, the two
grifters soon join forces for the ultimate score -- a young and naive tech billionaire in
the South of France.
Anne Hathaway as Josephine Chesterfield
Rebel Wilson as Penny Rust
Alex Sharp as Thomas Westerburg
Dean Norris as Howard Bacon
Timothy Simons as Jeremy
Ingrid Oliver as Brigitte Desjardins
Nicholas Woodeson as Albert
Rob Delaney as Todd
Tim Blake Nelson as Portnoy
Casper Christensen as Mathias
- Main message, symbolism and memorable scenes
This film is funny but not for everyone. It’s more feminine, describing women, who makes men out of
money. They made it for the reason rich men often offend women, they think only about money and
nothing else. The most important for them is to make them equal, without difference in social status,
making men feel how it is to be under somebody and how it is to be without money.
