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The real question is this: was all this legal? Absolutely not.
He was unapologetic about his actions and his loss for wealth and his loss for consuming everything around him- and that is
a basis for a great character, a great story. You show me a pay stub for $72 thousand dollars
and I quit my job right now and I work for you.
We start this company together and my character becomes more obsessed with the more animalistic things like drugs and women and
sort of falls into a darker side that way. Whereas Jordon I think, gets off on being
all powerful. Aren't you married? Can't married people be friends? We're not just gonna be
friends. He seems to do everything to an extreme- work to an extreme, make money to an extreme.
Dad we're not poor anymore. Tell him about the sides. What are these sides, they cure
cancer? These sides did cure cancer, that's the problem, that's why they were expensive.
He's very proud of his son but at the same time he basically thinks his son is going a little over the
top. This right here is the land of opportunity. You just tried to bribe a federal officer.
Jorden Belfort was absolutely so brazen, he was absolutely above everything.
They really did have a lot of fun, that's all they could do was have fun and more fun
and more on top of that until it wasn't so much fun anymore. But what they couldn't do
was just be; they just couldn't face that. Set and background and action.
Every scene we do is absurd, we had a chimpanzee in roller skates in the office the other day and a naked
marching band. Like, everything is ridiculous. It was incredibly loose, like a theatre company
of guys coming in and playing with the material. We just go in any direction and he'll be right
there, it pushes me to do more and take more risks because he does it and I feel like I
need to keep up with him. He is probably one of the most famous actors in the world for
a reason, I knew he would be an amazing actor, I didn't realize how close we would become
and I respect and appreciate him on every possible level, he's just insanely talented.
Jonah, for all of us, was just an electrifying force who ignited each scene every single
day and one of the earliest conversations that I had with him was before he got cast
and he looked at me and he said this was the role that I was meant to play. To play this
person, you have to turn a blind eye to their behavior, not only turn a blind eye to it
but justify that you're okay with yourself doing these things and that to me, was the
challenge of it. You're going to bring us two absolute martinis- you know how I like
them- straight up. And then precisely seven and one half minutes you're going to bring
us two more, then two more after that every five minutes till one of us passes out. Working
with Matthew McConaghey the first time was really interesting. He said what about my
accent and I said why couldn't there be a southern accent on Wall St? I'm good with
water for now, thank you. It's his first day on Wall St, give him time. The artists get
really free creative control of what they did and that was the attitude of making this
movie and I wish more movies were like that. He was able to bring out a life in these characters,
a reality and a sense of humor to that dark side which is so apparent in this movie which
very very few film makes can accomplish. Films these days seem to be very extreme close ups,
it's all happening behind the eyes but with Marty it's like More! Bigger! It never gets
false. There's a huge distaste in America and around the world for Wall St and corporate
America for what's recently gone on in our economy. You can't help but not neceassarily
root for these guys but wanna watch them disintegrate- it's ironic but incredibly entertaining. What
happens when you are given too much? What happens when rules aren't placed on you and
money can really, in your mind, buy you freedom? To do whatever you want and treat people however
you want. It's not right. I'm going to teach each and every one of you to be the best.
Exploration in to the depth of who these people are, acknowledging that part of us that is
a common humanity, we have to deal with it. We're going nowhere! I love my country, I
love Jesus Christ and I love making people rich. Hello?