Bo Burnham and Lorene Scafaria relationship explained
LORENE Scafaria is a filmmaker who has directed Hustlers and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.
She has been linked to the Promising Young Woman actor Bo Burnham for nearly a decade.
Who is Bo Burnham's girlfriend Lorene Scafaria?
Lorene Scafaria is a 45-year-old screenwriter, playwright, actress, and film director.
She is a New Jersey native who was born and raised in Holmdel Township.
Scafaria is perhaps best known for directing Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers and the Steve Carell film Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.
Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
Scafaria is also a writer on the film.
According to IMDB, Scafaria is set to executive produce a musical comedy called Under the Boardwalk.
How long have Bo and Lorene been dating?
Bo Burnham and Lorene have been dating Burnham since 2013.
By September 2015, the couple attended their first event together at a party in Toronto.
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Though they are pretty private about their life, the two posted that they adopted a dog together in August 2018.
When Hustler's came out, Burnham took to Instagram to praise the movie and the women behind the film.
Burnham said: "I have had a front row seat to the making of this movie, having lived with the genius who made it as she struggled to convince people that this was a movie worth making — and furthermore, that she should direct it.
"Many told her no, that though she wrote the script, and had directed two beautiful films prior to this, that she was not the right fit to direct it.
"Those people now sell cream cheese for a living or something, I assume. This movie is brilliant and warm and funny and sexy just like the woman who made it. I love this movie and I love her."
In 2021, Bo dedicated his comedy special, Inside, at the end credit to Scafaria writing: "for lor, for everything."
Due to their desire to keep their personal lives private, as of May 2023, Bo was rumored to be getting cozy with singer .
On May 14, 2023, Phoebe and Bo were seen attending a Taylor Swift concert as shown through Keith Urban's .
As Keith and his wife, Nicole Kidman, were enjoying Swift, Bo seemed to have leaned in to kiss Phoebe.
This isn't the first time the two have been spotted together as rumors have dated back to late 2022.
Bo, Phoebe, nor Lorene have commented on the rumors.
What did Scafaria say about Hustlers?
Hustlers, which also stars Constance Wu and Julia Stiles, is based on published in 2015.
"I missed the story when it first came out, but I read it in 2016, and I was immediately drawn to it as a film," Scafaria told .
"It’s such an incredible world to see from a perspective that we haven’t seen a lot of, even though there are strip clubs in every movie and TV show.
"So I was really excited to tell the story from [the strippers’] point of view."
The director would add: "I was excited to look at these women close up - from the neck up - and in ways that maybe we aren’t used to looking at them.
"They’re in the service industry. They’re entertainers.
"I don’t think people connect the dots between what they’re doing for a living and that they are in fact doing something for a living.
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"They’re there to make money. They’re there to pay bills. It’s a job like anything else. You meet some creeps; you meet some nice people."
Between the actresses and the movie itself, Hustlers won 24 awards including Top Films of the Year at the New York Film Critics, Online.