SBG 147: The Hustle

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Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that would eat Anne Hathaway’s toilet french fry.

This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why the 2019 crime comedy The Hustle Should’ve Been Gay. This movie is 90 minutes of Anne Hathaway (Josephine) and Rebel Wilson (Penny) flirting in the French Riviera while occasionally committing crimes against men with the help of Jo’s policewoman lover (that we’re 99% sure lives with her) and a sassy old gay butler. If you’re looking for a comedy with sapphic energy that doesn’t really require any brain power and isn’t incomprehensibly 3 hours long, The Hustle should be at the top of your list.

This may be a Should’ve Been Gay, but lesbihonest, there is not one straight woman in the entire movie. For women who spend a lot of their time seducing men, they really could not be less interested in them. Hell, Josephine doesn’t even sleep with any of them! Only Anne Hathaway could convince three obscenely rich men to propose to her without even putting out. She is maybe too powerful– we didn’t even flinch at that toilet french fry scene. When Jo isn’t radiating sex (without actually having any) in order to swindle some rich guy out of millions, she’s parading Penny around on a leash to assert her dominance. Hot.

While the vibes for Penny are more chaos-bisexual, Josephine is giving full high femme, lesbian dominatrix energy and we are SEATED. Together, they make a hilarious and surprisingly effective conwoman team. And what could be better than sapphics swindling immoral rich men out of their millions? By the end of the film they are in a full on power-throuple with a man that gives even Penny a run for her money on bi-vibes (and who is a direct descendant of someone whose crime code-name is Medusa- yep, the man-hating snake-haired woman who turns men to stone with one look). 

As we watched the newly formed polycule sail off into the beautiful Capri sunset with their stolen riches, we just had one thought–

The Hustle Should’ve Been Gay.

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