Ben McKenzie

I was like, why don't you sell it?

Build a house that isn't made out of cinder blocks or buy a motorcycle or I don't know.

And it was very clear he was never going to sell this.

Yeah, it takes on a religious quality to it.

Exactly.

So that really illustrated a lot.

It was like both the cult of it, the marketing of it, the lack of substance of it in basically every level.

So yeah, El Salvador is really important to the story.

What's wild about it is it was always going to be a part of the movie because I was like, I love that country.

And I was really sort of charmed by the people.

And it's hard to make things tangible in crypto.

It's like, well, this is a tangible thing that's happened.

But I was like, no one's ever going to care about El Salvador.

I couldn't have found it on a map.

And then Trump sends illegal immigrants or illegal immigrants sends people to that prison.

True, yeah.

Even I have felt that temptation, to be honest with you.

I didn't know what exactly he was doing, but I had a sense that whatever he was doing was not good.

You know, at the time, he was the king of crypto.

The market was crashing, but he was supposedly this boy genius who'd figured it all out.