{"id":10646,"date":"2009-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"steven-soderbergh-on-hookers-and-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/steven-soderbergh-on-hookers-and-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Steven Soderbergh on hookers and hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Post-Dispatch &#8211; For his 20th feature film, &ldquo;The Girlfriend Experience,&rdquo; director Steven Soderbergh has returned to a theme he explored in his breakthrough &ldquo;sex, lies and videotape&rdquo;: infidelity. Yet the Oscar-winning director of &ldquo;Traffic&rdquo; and blockbusters such as &ldquo;Ocean&rsquo;s Eleven&rdquo; refuses to play it safe. Like his recent projects &ldquo;Bubble&rdquo; and &ldquo;Che,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Girlfriend Experience&rdquo; is available for PC download and pay-per-view simultaneous with the theatrical release. And Soderbergh crossed an invisible line when he cast adult-film star Sasha Grey in the lead role.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke by phone with Steven Soderbergh last week.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Did the original idea for this movie come from you or from the screenwriters (Brian Koppelman and David Levien, who wrote &ldquo;Ocean&rsquo;s Thirteen&rdquo;)?<\/p>\n<p>A: It landed on us at the same time. We were together at a bar in midtown Manhattan when I saw a woman who seemed disconnected from everything else that was going on there. I asked them if they could figure out how she fit in, and they both said &ldquo;Oh, that&rsquo;s a G.F.E.&rdquo; <br \/>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/blogzone\/joes-movie-lounge\/joes-movie-lounge\/2009\/05\/steven-soderbergh-on-hookers-and-hedge-funds\/\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/blogzone\/joes-movie-lounge\/joes-movie-lounge\/2009\/05\/steven-soderbergh-on-hookers-and-hedge-funds\/\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/blogzone\/joes-movie-lounge\/joes-movie-lounge\/2009\/05\/steven-soderbergh-on-hookers-and-hedge-funds\/\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Post-Dispatch &#8211; For his 20th feature film, &ldquo;The Girlfriend Experience,&rdquo; director Steven Soderbergh has returned to a theme he explored in his breakthrough &ldquo;sex, lies and videotape&rdquo;: infidelity. Yet the Oscar-winning director of &ldquo;Traffic&rdquo; and blockbusters such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12052,12064,12049,12050,12063,12054,12060,12057,12062,12058,10666,11183,12056,12059,12055,12053,12051,12061,941],"class_list":["post-10646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-adult-film-star","tag-breakthrough","tag-brian-koppelman-and-david-levien","tag-director-steven-soderbergh","tag-feature-film","tag-girlfriend-experience","tag-infidelity","tag-invisible-line","tag-lead-role","tag-louis-post-dispatch","tag-midtown-manhattan","tag-rsquo","tag-sasha-grey","tag-screenwriters","tag-sex-lies-and-videotape","tag-st-louis-post-dispatch","tag-steven-soderbergh","tag-theatrical-release","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}