Elizabeth Banks confessed she learned a key detail about her new thriller, Skincare , after she started filming the movie. Banks, 50, explained to Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday, July 17, that she wasn’t aware the film was inspired by a true story until “way later into the process.” ( Skincare is fictional, but loosely based on celebrity facialist Dawn DaLuise .
) “I didn’t know it at all,” she said. “I had never heard about it. I was just all in on Hope Goldman and this character and the sort of milieu of L.
A.” Banks explained that she previously used a facialist named Matty, whom she thought was similar to her character in Skincare . “She was very much this Hope Goldman character in my mind, in that she had her own little place on 3rd Street in LA, and she 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,” Banks said.
“So when I read the script, that’s what I was thinking. I was like, I’m going to base it on Matty.” Skincare follows Hope (Banks) who has plans to launch a skincare line when her rival, Angel Vergara ( Luis Gerardo Méndez ) opens a store across from hers.
Hope begins to suspect that someone is attempting to sabotage her, which leads her on a mission to discover who’s against her. The former Pitch Perfect star noted that it’s unclear what all of the characters are “capable of,” before teasing, “What you know is you.