![]() “It’s jarring to hear something you said coming out of somebody else’s mouth in a different context. “The weirdest thing is how incredibly real things come up against things that are totally not real,” says Pressler via Zoom from her New York City apartment. The Women of 'Inventing Anna': Katie Lowes.Ultimately (and which we go into detail about below), Pressler chose Shonda Rhimes to steer her hard-won investigative piece into the world of television and create another fictionalized version of herself. Once the article was published in 2018, the calls started rolling in almost immediately to try and option the story. #Anna delvey book professional#The first came when Julia Stiles played an investigative journalist named Elizabeth, who was loosely based on Pressler, in Hustlers, the 2019 Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu film based on Pressler’s New York magazine article “ The Hustlers at Scores.” And now, Anna Chlumsky plays Vivian Kent, a journalist looking for the next big story to buoy her out of a professional slump, in Shondaland and Netflix’s latest limited series, Inventing Anna, also based on a Pressler article, “ How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People.” It’s the second time Pressler - a journalist and staff writer at New York magazine who has also written for outlets like GQ, Elle, and Esquire - has been depicted, of sorts, on-screen. “I’ve had moments where I go, ‘What is it like in Mongolia this time of year?’” says Jessica Pressler when asked how she feels about seeing herself portrayed in a TV show. ![]()
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