{"id":112280,"date":"2024-07-17T21:21:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/elizabeth-banks-didnt-know-skincare-film-was-based-on-a-true-story\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T21:21:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:21:35","slug":"elizabeth-banks-didnt-know-skincare-film-was-based-on-a-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/elizabeth-banks-didnt-know-skincare-film-was-based-on-a-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Banks ‘Didn’t Know’ Skincare Film Was Based on a True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Elizabeth Banks<\/strong><\/a> confessed she learned a key detail about her new thriller, Skincare<\/em>, after she started filming the movie.<\/p>\n

Banks, 50, explained to Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a> on Wednesday, July 17, that she wasn\u2019t aware the film was inspired by a true story until \u201cway later into the process.\u201d (Skincare<\/em> is fictional, but loosely based<\/a> on celebrity facialist Dawn DaLuise<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know it at all,\u201d she said. \u201cI had never heard about it. I was just all in on Hope Goldman and this character and the sort of milieu of L.A.\u201d<\/p>\n

Banks explained that she previously used a facialist named Matty, whom she thought was similar to her character in Skincare<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe was very much this Hope Goldman character in my mind, in that she had her own little place on 3rd Street in LA, and she was recommended to me by an agent \u2014 Johnny Depp<\/strong>\u2018s agent \u2014 who said, \u2018Well, Johnny went to Matty,\u2019 and listed other clients who had gone to Matty,\u201d Banks said. \u201cSo when I read the script, that\u2019s what I was thinking. I was like, I\u2019m going to base it on Matty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skincare follows Hope (Banks) who has plans to launch a skincare line when her rival, Angel Vergara (Luis Gerardo M\u00e9ndez<\/strong>) opens a store across from hers. Hope begins to suspect that someone is attempting to sabotage her, which leads her on a mission to discover who\u2019s against her.<\/p>\n

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The former Pitch Perfect<\/em> star<\/a> noted that it\u2019s unclear what all of the characters are \u201ccapable of,\u201d before teasing, \u201cWhat you know is you haven\u2019t seen anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cAnd so people present themselves as one way, but you get to see this sort of underbelly of everyone as well. I think that creates a ton of tension because you\u2019re waiting for something to explode. You\u2019re waiting for violence to happen because you start to realize that these characters will do anything for their success, and you\u2019re just wondering how far it\u2019s going to go. And that\u2019s what I liked about this film.\u201d<\/p>\n

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