Devil Cody

Born on June 14, 1978 into a Catholic family in Chicago (Illinois), Brook Busey –her real name– had a most normal childhood. “In high school she was very similar to Juno, neither popular nor unpopular. She swarmed from one group to another and played in a marching band. She was a bit rebellious without exaggeration, but I remember that the police had to take me home because I did the foolish thing to throw toilet paper around the neighborhood, ”recalls the actress. While she was studying at the University of Iowa she earned a living as a DJ, and after graduating she spent a while working as a secretary. Passionate about the internet, it was on the net that she met Jon Hunt, a man she fell in love with to such an extent that she went to live in Minnesota next to her. She there she ended up working for an advertising agency,

When Diablo Cody became a blogger, she felt that she hardly had life experiences to tell on the blog, since she led a fairly quiet office worker life. That was how, in a kind of fit of madness, he became a ‘stripper’. “A day came when he had nothing to write. I signed up for a ‘striptease’ contest. I didn’t win, but I had fun and, on top of that, I narrated the experience on the blog, with great success. I understood that living this type of experience could be very good for my blog”. It is not very well understood how it is possible that instead of trying to prosper in the field of advertising, she opted to become a professional ‘stripper’, with the support of her husband. “She had fallen into a downward spiral,” says Cody, who was in her early 20s at the time. Apparently she was the least successful of the entire club. “I was making $800 in one night, but some girls were up to $4,000.” Although she spent a year dancing while she tried her luck as an announcer for an erotic line, she finally came face to face with reality, and realized what the sex business was like. “Women are not appreciated. They are treated like meat. I did not want to continue in a business where I had to become a robot. It is a job that makes you feel undervalued.” Her mother was slow to find out that she was in this occupation, and when she found out she went into a deep depression. They are treated like meat. I did not want to continue in a business where I had to become a robot. It is a job that makes you feel undervalued.” Her mother was slow to find out that she was in this occupation, and when she found out she went into a deep depression. They are treated like meat. I did not want to continue in a business where I had to become a robot. It is a job that makes you feel undervalued.” Her mother was slow to find out that she was in this occupation, and when she found out she went into a deep depression.

The only good thing about her experience as a lap dancer is that it provided her with a lot of material for her blog, ‘Pussy Ranch’, for which she had started using the pseudonym Diablo Cody. One night she was driving at full speed through the city of Cody, in Wyoming, while she was listening to the song ‘Diablo’, by Arcadia. “A friend told me to slow down and I replied that it was not me who was driving but Diablo Cody. I liked the nickname and stuck with it, ”she recalls. On the internet it seems that there was enough room for someone to tell the ins and outs of the sex industry, since her blog went from having a few readers to more than ten thousand. One of these readers was Mason Novick, a producer who was fascinated by her imaginative style. He contacted her and helped her get in touch with a publisher, to release ‘Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper’, a book that summarized her career as an erotic dancer. “As a movie producer, I read a lot of stuff that’s supposed to be funny, but it’s usually downright horrendous,” Novick explains. “So every day for about six months I read her blog, and every day she made me laugh. So I called her out of the blue and said, ‘hi, I’m a producer, I live in Los Angeles, I read her blog every day and she makes me laugh.’

Turned into his manager, it was Novick himself, producer of Night Flight , who convinced Cody that he had to write a movie script. He first proposed to take his book to the cinema, but he warned that it was necessary for him to write a few pages so that the studios could get an idea of ​​how he wrote. When she sat down to write, she began to think of a film about adolescents, different from all the others, that would tell different things. Thus Juno was born, about a girl who unexpectedly becomes pregnant, and instead of having an abortion she decides to give her child up for adoption. When Novick moved it, the text dazzled filmmaker Ivan Reitman , who had directed Thank You For Smoking .. Reitman decided that he had to bring the script to the screen. The story also captivated actress Jennifer Garner and Ellen Page , the Hard Candy actress , who Reitman proposed to be the lead, and who brought a lot of herself to her character. “She decided how Juno dressed and what music she listened to,” recalls Cody.

Not surprisingly, the tape became the ‘indie’ sensation of the season. Diablo Cody could not have had a better debut, since her agile dialogues –sometimes drawn from her own life experiences– made her worthy of the Oscar for best original screenplay –the only one that the film won, nominated in three other categories–. “Everything has happened very quickly and I’m still processing it,” says the actress, who with all the fuss ended up divorcing her husband, but she had caught the attention of Steven Spielberg . King Midas has produced the television series The United States of Tara , where Toni Colletteshe plays a family mother who constantly changes her personality, becoming very different characters. Diablo Cody has also written the upcoming horror comedy Jennifer’s Body , directed by Karyn Kusama and starring Megan Fox .