Jessica Chastain
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Dec 25, 2017 · And yet Sorkin’s latest film and directorial debut Molly’s Game is relatively faithful to the life of its subject, Molly Bloom (played by Jessica Chastain). The so-called “Poker...
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- Eliana Dockterman
Jan 5, 2018 · Molly's Game: Directed by Aaron Sorkin. With Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera. The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Aaron Sorkin
- 2018-01-05
Dec 20, 2017 · The story, about a world-class skier named Molly Bloom who went on to run the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game (only to become an FBI target), represents famed screenwriter Aaron...
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- Andrew Nusca
- Was Molly Bloom Really A Professional Skier?
- How Did Molly Bloom Become Involved in The World of High-Stakes Poker?
- Is The Cobra Lounge A Real Nightclub?
- Was Molly's Boss Really An Unpleasant Man?
- Was The Real Molly Bloom Involved in The Making of The Movie?
- How Did Molly End Up Starting Her Own Poker game?
- How Much Was The Buy-In to Get Into Molly's Poker Games?
- Who Were Some of The Celebrities Who Played in Molly Bloom's Poker Games?
- Did A Mobster Really Put A Gun to Molly's head?
- Is Idris Elba's Character, Charlie Jaffey, Based on A Real person?
Yes. The Molly's Game true story reveals that, like in the movie, former freestyle mogul skier Molly Bloom had never made it to the Olympics, in part due to an injury. "I was on the U.S. Ski Team," Bloom said during an interview on Ellen. "I was third in North America, and I crashed pretty horrifically on my Olympic qualifying run." With skiing out...
While taking the year off between undergrad and presumably law school, Molly went to LA in 2003 and began working a number of different jobs, including as a cocktail waitress and an executive assistant to real estate entrepreneur Darin Feinstein, one of the co-owners of the Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room (renamed The Cobra Lounge in the movie)....
No. In answering the question, "How accurate is Molly's Game?" we learned that the real nightclub where the poker games initially took place was The Viper Room on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. The club had been partly owned by Johnny Depp from its opening in 1993 until 2004. It was a popular celebrity hangout and is famous for being the locat...
Yes, at least that's what she states in her book Molly's Game. Portrayed by Jeremy Strong in the Molly's Game movieand referred to as Reardon Green in the book, Molly's boss, Darin Feinstein, wasn't the most pleasant of men. The scene in the movie when he yells at Molly (Jessica Chastain) for buying "poor people bagels" is real, according to her me...
Yes. Screenwriter/director Aaron Sorkin consulted Molly throughout the screenwriting process. He also relied heavily on her memoir of the same name (pictured below). -TIME
Like in the movie, her boss fired her from his game, so she decided to utilize the contacts she made to start up a poker game of her own.
In researching the Molly's Game true story, we learned that initially the buy-in started at $10,000. "Ultimately, it got to $250,000," Molly Bloom said during an interview on Ellen. She became known as the "Poker Princess."
Molly ran two underground games that attracted some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Macaulay Culkin, Alex Rodriguez, Pete Sampras and others. In her book, Bloom only mentions the celebrities who had already been outed in the media prior to the book being published. She stayed silent...
Yes. This is in Bloom's memoir. Like in the movie, she had hired a driver for security reasons. He introduced her to some of his mobster friends. They offered her protection for a slice of her profits. When she refused, a man showed up at her door with a gun. He roughed her up and threatened her family. He made off with her cash and jewelry, tellin...
No. Obviously Molly Bloom did hire lawyers, but Charlie Jaffey is a fictional character. When writing the screenplay, Aaron Sorkin did not interview Bloom's real-life lawyer, Jim Walden (pictured below, right). Sorkin said he wanted to be able to fictionalize the character to best serve the story and not have to worry about keeping him historically...
Jan 2, 2018 · Molly Bloom’s former life as a “poker princess” in the secretive world of high-stakes poker is the basis of an Aaron Sorkin movie, “Molly’s Game.” (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) By...
- amy.kaufman@latimes.com
- Columnist
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The film follows Bloom (Chastain), who becomes the target of an FBI investigation after the underground poker empire she runs for Hollywood celebrities, athletes, business tycoons, and the Russian mob is exposed.
Apr 20, 2024 · December 25, 2017. Director. Aaron Sorkin. Cast. Jessica Chastain , Idris Elba , Kevin Costner , Michael Cera , Jeremy Strong , Chris O'Dowd , Bill Camp. Runtime. 141. Molly Bloom Was a...
