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How Skincare adapts DaLuise’s story
Theatrical bow on August 16, 2024The saying “Life imitates art” applies to Elizabeth Banks’ new film Skin care. Only the filmmakers claim that they were not aware of the real-life inspiration when producing the thriller. In one of the most bizarre stories in recent Hollywood history, a professional beautician named Dawn DaLuise Skin care to steal her life story and adapt her narrative without her consent.
Although Banks and director Austin Peters claim that the parallels to DaLuise’s story are purely coincidental, the similarities are too great to ignore, so it’s worth examining the details of DaLuise’s true story and learning how much Skin care appropriates her life without permission. An ultimate story of rivalry and revenge, whether inadvertently adapting DaLuise’s story, Skin care examines the importance of keeping up appearances in a glitzy city like Hollywood.
Skin Care (2024)
- Release date
- 16 August 2024
- director
- Austin Peters
- Duration
- 1 hour 37 minutes
- Authors
- Sam Freilich, Austin Peters, Deering Regan
What is skin care all about?
Skin care is an independent dramatic thriller film directed by Austin Peters from a screenplay co-written with Sam Freilich and Deering Regan. Elizabeth Banks plays Hope Goldman, a famous beautician who provides skin care products to Hollywood’s biggest stars. Without enough influence and resources, Hope plans to open her own skincare business and take her success to the next level. However, her plans are derailed when a rival skincare guru named Angel Vergara (Luis Gerardo Mendez) opens a competing boutique across the street.
To believe that someone is playing a nasty trick on her, Hope lashes out with vengeful anger to prevent Luis’ skin care business from succeeding. The revenge thriller spirals into dangerous violence when Hope begins to bend the law and circumvent the rules to achieve her goal. As Hope tries to identify the mysterious person behind Luis’ success, her personal and professional life spirals so far out of control that Hope is left almost hopeless in her quest for success. The strangest thing about Skin care is that the film inadvertently takes on the story of real-life skin care specialist Dawn DaLuise, at least according to her. The filmmakers disagree.
Who is Dawn DaLuise?
Dawn DaLuise is a popular Hollywood beautician who came into the public eye after she was falsely accused of attempted murder of a rival in March 2014.Before DaLuise courted controversy, she made a name for herself by working with high-profile clients such as Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Nicki Minaj, Christian Slater, Alicia Silverstone, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and more.
In March 2014, 55-year-old DaLuise ran Skin Care Refinery, a small facial and waxing salon in West Hollywood. DaLuise was arrested for hiring a hitman to kill a rival esthetician named Gabriel Suarez after he opened his business, Smooth Cheeks, in the same building. Reportedly The assassin was allegedly a former Detroit Lions football player named Christopher GeileAfter her arrest, DaLuise spent ten months in prison before her wrongful imprisonment was proven and she was released.
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DaLuise claimed that stalkers Edward Feinstein and Bling Ring organizer Nick Purgo framed her for arrest. According to People, DaLuise said she was stalked shortly after Smooth Cheeks moved into the building. When she called the police for help, she was arrested for planning the murder of Suarez, instead of.
DaLuise told Dr. Phil that she believed Suarez was her stalker. When she jokingly told her friend Feinstein that she wished someone would kill Suarez, Feinstein turned the text messages over to police as incriminating evidence. The trial resulted in DaLuise’s acquittal in 2015. Feinstein and Purgo pleaded guilty to stalking DaLuise. They were charged with a misdemeanor count of stalking and sentenced to a light community service sentence (via The LA Times).
How Skincare adapts the story of DaLuise
According to Page Six, DaLuise has accused Skin care to adapt their life story without consent. The filmmakers claim that the parallels in the story are purely coincidental, although the story received a lot of attention in Hollywood a decade ago. DaLuise claims the producers put her life in danger and threatened to take legal action against the makers of . Skin careTo make matters worse, DaLuise claims that after years of trying to market her story to studios for an adaptation, Skincare “Could rob me of the ability to tell my own story.”
In skin care, Hope goes to extremes to eliminate a rival of Latino descent. The similarities between Angel Vergara in the unethical revenge thriller and Gabriel Suarez in the DaLuise case are too striking to be dismissed as coincidence. Hope’s physical appearance, the luxurious environment of Hollywood and the upscale lifestyle of the rich and famous undeniably reflect DaLuise’s story. It is hard to imagine that the creative forces behind Skin care were not aware of DaLuise’s true crime storyHowever, the filmmakers claim that they did not notice anything.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Banks explained:
“I didn’t know at all. I had never heard of it. I was just completely in love with Hope Goldman and this character and the LA milieu.”
Banks added that she was inspired by Johnny Depp’s real-life beautician, a man named Matty who worked on 3rd Street downtown.
“In my mind, she was very much based on this Hope Goldman character who had her own little place on 3rd Street in LA and was recommended to me by an agent – Johnny Depp’s agent – who said, ‘Well, Johnny went to Matty’ and listed other clients who had gone to Matty. When I read the script, I thought that. I thought, I’m going to base it on Matty.”
As for Rivers, the director claims that his hometown of Los Angeles and the city’s inextricable connection to “image” inspired him. Skin caretell EW:
“These themes of authenticity, beauty and superficiality, expressed in this very real and often very dark environment, really excited me. I love the noir genre and the idea of shooting this ‘Sunshine Noir’ in the place where I grew up, in a world of beauty, sparked the creation of this film.”
Whether Banks and Rivers knew about DaLuise’s story beforehand, Skin care looks set to outperform the competition when it hits theaters on August 16, 2024.
