It's a pretty good week at the movies when you've got two year-end auteur films like Her and The Wolf of Wall Street coming out within a few days of each other, but the latter film contains a delightful surprise from the former: Her director Spike Jonze actually has a cameo in Martin Scorsese's tale of amoral Wall Street greed, popping up in the first act as a small-time broker who teaches Leonardo DiCaprio the ins and outs of penny stocks. "That happened because Ellen Lewis was the casting director for Her, and she also cast The Wolf of Wall Street," Jonze explained to Vulture. "When we were auditioning people for our movie, I would often read with the people we were auditioning, and she called me up later and said, 'Hey, you're actually an okay actor! You want to come do this thing?'"Jonze readily agreed — "Yeah,...
- 12/26/2013
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
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