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Constance Wu Made $600 Dancing at a Strip Club While Preparing for Hustlers

We’re still not over the Hustlers snubs at this year’s Oscars—but we’re loving this new story about Constance Wu’s time researching her role as the stripper Destiny in the movie.

Wu appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Monday,February 17 and revealed some behind-the-scenes intel about her preparation. “I did work at a strip club to get ready for Hustlers,” she said. “I went undercover. I gave lap dances to strangers.”

But that’s not all. The Fresh Off the Boat star actually took home some serious cash for her efforts. “I’m not lying! I made $600 my first night. I am not being funny, and it was not funny,” Wu said. “I put fake tattoos on my neck, I changed my hair… You can’t duplicate the first time you walk into a club and say, ‘Hey, I’d like to have a job here,’ and then you go work that night.”

Watch the interview below.

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In Hustlers, Wu plays a single mom in New York City who joins forces with Jennifer Lopez’s character, Ramona, and two other dancer friends to steal money and valuables from rich clients during the 2008 financial crisis. The film, written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, was based on a true story chronicled in a New York magazine article.

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Constance Wu previously said she visited a number of strip clubs to get into character and even installed a pole in her house. “I went to a lot of strip clubs in San Francisco — that’s what I spent my Christmas Eve doing,” she told Vulture.

“I installed a pole in my living room. I took pole classes; I took private coaching sessions,” she added. “And this was all stuff I paid for by myself before we even started the movie. I became friends with a couple of strippers.”

Given the box office success of the film, we’d say all that research paid off.

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Here's How Kate Middleton Is Preparing to Be Queen

According to a new cover story in People this week, Kate Middleton has taken a few steps to cement her place as future queen.

Royal insiders tell People that the Duchess of Cambridge has really come into her own since the birth of her three children. We know that she takes a hands-on approach with her kids and is even the family photographer from time to time. Sources say that the confidence she’s gained over the last few years is also reflected in her own charity work, which focuses on issues related to parenthood and child development. She’s reportedly even writing her own speeches these days and sitting in long meetings with U.K. organizations.

“The Duchess wouldn’t just join us, she would stay for the whole meeting. She has a deep curiosity to really understand the issues,” Kate Stanley, director of strategy at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, tells People.

“She is now more open with what she wants to say, and funnily enough, she is more relaxed as well,” a family source also told People, while another source added, “She is finding her voice.”

Fans saw a glimpse of this in January, when Middleton spoke frankly about the struggles of motherhood. “It’s so hard,” the duchess said at an event. “You get a lot of support with the baby as a mother particularly in the early days, but after the age of one, it falls away. After that, there isn’t a huge amount. Lots of books to read. Everybody experiences the same struggle.”

Meanwhile, a third close royals source told People, “She is an adoring mother, and she is contributing publicly in the way we would want her to. You see it more and more. The young student has turned into our future Queen.”

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