‘Shark Tank’s’ Kevin O’Leary isn’t used to taking orders, but as cast member in new movie Marty Suprethe prolific investor had no choice.
O’Leary has been a millionaire for more than 25 years and a prolific investor since then. He sold his software company SoftKey to Mattel In 1999, he spent $4.2 billion. Recently, he invested approximately $8.5 million 40 companies role as judge Shark Tank Since the first season in 2009.
However, on the set of Marty First, in which O’Leary plays ruthless millionaire businessman Milton Rockwell opposite Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Mauser, O’Leary learned that just because he was calling the shots in other aspects of his life, it didn’t mean he was in charge on set.
(The following contains minor to major spoilers Marty Supre.)
“The lesson I learned is that a movie set is not a democracy. I’m not used to being told what to do. I tell the story,” O’Leary told type. “We did 20 takes and I said to Josh (Safdie), ‘Okay, I think we got it. We can move on.’ He said, ‘What the hell are you talking about? We’re not going to move on until I say we move on.”
O’Leary’s contributions to film
Yet despite O’Leary’s lack of control on set, Safdie and co-writer Ronald Bronstein were happy to add his notes to a character that echoed some of his own personality. The most famous of these is a monologue Rockwell gave to Mauser, in which he claimed to be a “vampire” born in 1601.
O’Leary also contributed to Rockwell’s look, using his knowledge as a watch enthusiast to choose the two watches his character wore on each wrist, one representing New York time and the other Tokyo time.
O’Leary refused to wear a prop watch or wear a watch he did not own. Instead, he scoured the globe for period-appropriate pieces to wear in the film.
He called Rolex and found a 1950s Patek Philippe, which he admitted he had bought “At crazy prices.” The other, a 1952 Seiko watch called the “Super,” was difficult to find on the secondary market. Eventually, “Seiko found one – it might have come from some museum – and they gave it to me,” O’Leary told reporters. new york times.
Perhaps one of O’Leary’s most memorable scenes is when he spanked Oscar-nominee Chalamet’s bare butt with a real table tennis paddle to bring more authenticity to a key scene, which he said required 40 takes and took until 4 a.m. to complete.
To be sure, one of his biggest qualms with the film was the ending, which was so bad for his character that he called it “ridiculous.” type.
“Me and Ronnie (Brownstein) got into a lot of fights – well, not fights, but I said, ‘Guys, this Marty Supre Man, I’ll never let anybody (expletive) do that to me. This will never happen to me. He didn’t pay enough,” O’Leary told the media new york times.
However, not all Shark Tank The judges’ suggestions were incorporated into the final cut. Apparently, the investor and first-time actor suggested changes to the film’s ending, including that Chalamet’s character’s love interest Rachel Mizler (Odessa Atzion) should die in childbirth, to add more poignancy to the otherwise “kumbaya” ending. In the end, Safdie considered the change but didn’t adopt it because he thought it was too “disgusting.” type.
A reluctant “employee”
O’Leary was not used to being an employee. Just before he sold SoftKey, the company had acquired a number of competitors and became the second-largest consumer software company at the time 2,000 employees.
as a judge Shark Tankhe’s also used to entrepreneurs coming to him for advice, although he’s often brutally honest with contestants on the show. Among them is O’Leary, founder of The Lip Bar Tell “The likelihood of this being a business is almost zero.” The lipstick company raised $6.7 million in 2022 Financing round Later he made fun of O’Leary by billboard advertise.
O’Leary was discovered by director Josh Safdie for the role of “Rockwell.” Marty Supre Partly because of his reputation Shark Tank. In fact, according to O’Leary, Safdie approached him to play Rockwell for the same reason television producer Mark Burnett liked him. Shark Tank“We’re looking for a real asshole,” Safdie reportedly told O’Leary.
Safdie, who co-directed A24’s “Uncut Gems,” flew on a private jet to O’Leary’s lakeside home in Muskoka, Canada, to hear him read the role. O’Leary, who has admitted to exploring other acting opportunities (although he is reportedly waiting for the promotional cycle to end before taking on another role), said he’s excited to play the antagonist and would be more than willing to play the Bond villain.
“I said this motherfucker thing is starting to work for me,” O’Leary Tell vanity fair.