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How Elizabeth Banks Thriller ‘Skincare’ Turns a Real Life Murder-for-Hire Plot Into a Twisted L.A. Noir About the American Dream


The germ of the idea for the crime thriller "Skincare" came from a stranger-than-fiction criminal case.

She portrays Hope Goldman, whose life is upended when a buzzier skincare expert named Angel (Luis Gerardo Méndez) opens a clinic across the street and starts attracting her celebrity clients. Peters’ background filming music videos — working with artists like Diplo, Haim and Orville Peck — inspired his kinetic directing style, which is a fitting match to Banks’ dynamic performance. Pulsing music plays an important part in many of the film’s key scenes, from an opening that juxtaposes Hope’s glamorous world with a fiery Queens of the Stone Age track, to a surreal, coked-out dance to Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream.”

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