Pain Hustlers director David Yates and producer Lawrence Grey discuss what drew them to the project, collaborating with Emily Blunt, and big pharma.
Summary Pain Hustlers follows Liza Drake, a high school dropout and struggling single mother. She manages to find a job at a bankrupt pharmaceutical company in a dilapidated strip mall in Central Florida. However, her life takes an unexpected upswing when sales skyrocket, sending Liza into the high life, but it also puts her in the center of a criminal conspiracy with dire consequences.
David Yates: Well, what I love about this story, first of all, Wells Tower, who wrote the screenplay, is such a beautiful writer, great with character, great with tone, very subversive, slightly cheeky. So, it's Wells' writing that was hugely appealing. And then the fact that we were making a subject which is a state of the nation subject, something that's touching so many lives, and Lawrence and I, very early on, decided we wanted to create an experience for the audience.
Lawrence Grey: I think probably what was most shocking about it was just the unlimited ability to be able to financially incentivize a doctor to prescribe a medication. When you experience it as a patient, you really think a doctor is matching a patient to the best medication, and that happens in a very objective process that's really just about the best interest of the patient. As you get behind the curtain of how it really happens, there's so many factors that go into that.
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