“I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit,” she said. In the movie, Molly introduces us to “Player X,” a hugely popular young actor seemingly based on Maguire. She became addicted to drugs. (Chastain is great, too, but you’ll have to give me a moment if you want me to provide an example of when she Joe Kerry from “Stranger Things” does nice work as a wild and loose player known as “Trust Fund Cole.” Graham Greene is perfect as Judge Foxman, who hears Molly’s case. One regular game in New York had a $250,000 buy-in, attracting Wall Street financiers and leading to evenings where people would win or lose millions of dollars in one session.“I finally had that thing,” she said. Customers came to include men from the Russian mob. The forthcoming film Molly’s Game, which stars Jessica Chastain and arrives in theaters on Christmas Day, takes moviegoers on a high-stakes trip through the world of underground poker. The real life Molly Bloom who ran a high-stakes poker game “In 2009, my tax returns showed over $4 million,” she said—not from the game itself so much as the lucrative tips for extending credit to players.
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People is on Community! Chris O’Dowd’s Douglas Downey is a sad charmer, but he seems like an unnecessary character — until he doesn’t.Jessica Chastain gives a nomination-worthy performance as Molly, a strong and sometimes admirable but also deeply flawed character. "Why do you have him cuffed to the bed? newsletter We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. We spoke to the real-life Molly Bloom to talk about moving on from the underground world of high-stakes poker. Molly’s Game has two, winding temporal strands.
From Princess Beatrice to Meghan Markle (Kudos to Michael Cera for taking on the role of “Player X” and creating a thoroughly repulsive, entitled jerk of a character.
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It’s so theatrical we should be holding a copy of Playbill in our hands as we watch the two of them parry with one another — but it also results in some of the best pure acting Costner has ever done. In a typically witty and dry, Sorkin-esque prologue, we see how Molly’s career as an Olympic freestyle skiing hopeful was snapped with one devastating injury, much to the disappointment of her military-intense father (Kevin Costner), who has demanded academic and athletic excellence from his children since they were old enough to walkStill in her early 20s, Molly moves to Los Angeles to soak up some sun and have some fun and put some distance between her and her father’s impossible expectations. Text us for exclusive photos and videos, royal news, and way more. As character studies and poker tales go, ‘Molly’s Game’ the real dealJacob Blake handcuffed to hospital bed, father says"He can’t go anywhere," the 29-year-old’s dad said, speaking of his son’s paralysis. )“The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional,” she told So she built one of the biggest and most exclusive poker games in the world—one that included clientele like Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Ben Affleck. “I think it was all those things,” she acknowledged. But there is good news. The film, a fast-paced legal thriller with impressive performances by Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, and the entire supporting cast, is very well-made.
Text us for exclusive photos and videos, royal news, and way more. Under Molly’s supervision, the game grows exponentially, in terms of the stakes and the trappings. "The event came on the heels of yet another shooting by a white police officer of a Black man — 29-year-old Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin— that sparked days of protests and violence that left two dead.The bar, in terms of what constitutes true allyship, keeps getting higher and the choices — in a country whose president calls Black Lives Matter a "symbol of hate" — keep becoming more starkly defined. “One night, I saw someone lose $100 million.” Someone had to guarantee the money—and that someone was Bloom.The venture soon turned for the worse.