New York Strip Clubs: Andy Garcia’s daughter shines in family biz
Garcia-Lorido, 26, plays a college student who makes ends meet by working at a local strip club, and even though there’s no R-rated nudity in the brief pole-dancing scenes, writer-director Raymond De Felitta says Papa Garcia didn’t want to be around while those scenes were shot.
“He told me, ‘You handle that.’ I’ll be in the family scenes with her,” De Felitta says. But Garcia shrugs off any awkwardness.
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“Her character is not really a stripper — she’s hanging upside down on the pole in a bikini,” Garcia says. “That’s a long way from stripping in a movie. If she had to strip — ask her — she might not do it. It’s her life at this point. I have certain things that I feel and I can’t impose them on her.”