With Working Girls getting a much-deserved Criterion release, V.F. speaks to Lizzie Borden about sex work, bad bosses, and reclaiming her career after getting labeled “difficult” by Harvey Weinstein:
I think in college, and was astonished by it then. But there’s a particular resonance in rewatching it now, because so many more people are at least passingly familiar with the world of sex work. What’s been your experience of the general culture learning more about this very private world you depicted in 1986?The film itself doesn’t change, but the world changes, and then our perspectives change.
There’s a sense that, because Molly allows her clients an extra level of intimacy—kissing them on the mouth and offering them detailed life advice—she is opening herself up to an additional level of danger. The Paul character, with whom Molly seems to have a strong rapport, eventually turns out to be the most sinister of these men.
The way I tried to structure the script was to show how, in a day, Molly is allowing herself to do the number of clients that she knows she can handle. But then the villain, Lucy—who is a capitalist—compels her against her will to work a double shift, and then just keeps piling on her regulars. Perhaps Molly could have handled Paul in the daytime, because she was surrounded by women who would have been a chorus of support for her.
Lucy’s refusal to see what she is doing with this business is represented in her flagrantly showing the girls the fancy things she bought. Basically telling the girls, “If you play your cards right, you can do the same. You can be what I am”—to have a brothel, see a married man, and find a way to get him to give you things. Which is the ultimate capitalist position. It’s the idea that that’s the only option.
There’s this moment where there’s a new girl working at the brothel, and she’s Black and very beautiful, and a very well-dressed Black man comes in and dismisses her. I thought that scene was so ahead of its time in recognizing the dynamics of what might happen between a Black woman and man in this space. Lucy’s boyfriend, who is white, is kind of looking at this woman with interest, but this Black man is not interested. In fact, he seems offended by her presence.
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