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‘Skincare’s Elizabeth Banks Talks Noir Film’s “Ripped From The Headlines” Inspiration & ‘Bling Ring’ Connection
Inspired by a true story, Elizabeth Banks stars in Skincare as a celebrity facialist who suspects a competitor is stalking and harassing her.
It’s a true crime-inspired character study about a woman’s struggle to stay relevant in Hollywood and the dangerous lengths she’ll go to defend what she’s built — a role to which Banks “felt very connected.” Skincare also has real-life roots, loosely inspired by celebrity facialist Dawn DaLuise, who went to jail but was acquitted in a murder-for-hire plot against competitor Gabriel Suarez. In real life, the basis of that was a book based on articles that were written by Mickey Rapkin, who did a cappella at Cornell and knew that there had never been an all-female group that won the ICCA.
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