The Wolf Of Wall Street\u201d was based on the novel by Jordan Belfort and chronicles the rise of Belfort on Wall Street, the life he led during that time, and his fall, involving crime, corruption, and the Feds. I am uncredited on the film, but it\u2019s an interesting story. <\/p>\n
I had a great audition with Scorsese, and, in fact, I was cast. But I had already booked a commercial and had signed on. I auditioned because the shoot dates didn\u2019t conflict. They were close but didn\u2019t overlap. And then, of course, they did. I tried to do both. The commercial was shooting at night and the \u2018Wolf\u201d people did try to accommodate me, but they wound up shooting at night, too. I stuck with the commercial because I had already signed on and that’s what you do. You honor your commitments, but if I hadn’t signed the contract I would have done the movie. Martin Scorsese, after all.<\/p>\n
Five months later my agent for the film gets a call from \u201cThe Wolf Of Wall Street,\u201d Scorsese wants to see me. Rocky Aoki, the role I auditioned for, was the founder of the Benihana restaurant chain, and had had curly, or permed, hair, so they wanted me to go see the hairdresser for the show, get fitted with a curly wig, and go to Scorsese\u2019s townhouse on the East side. I get the wig, and I go with the hairdresser to Scorsese\u2019s. Scorsese and some production people check me out, and then we\u2019re leaving and I ask the hairdresser do I have a job? No one knew. <\/p>\n
They called me later, and I did have a job. But there was some kind of Union thing, I think, or maybe because it was so late, but I was, and remain, uncredited on the film. It doesn\u2019t really matter, I was in the film, and I was directed by Martin Scorsese. And he cast me in a short film\/commercial a couple of years later with Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Brad Pitt. It is the most expensive commercial ever made. You can read about it in \u201cThe Audition\u201d on my grid up ahead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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