Jordan Belfort
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Before you even got the movie deal?
Yeah, well-
No, it wasn't out before the movie.
So Leo, Leo read the book before it was even, it was a manuscript.
It was just a manuscript.
It was an edited, so the editing was done.
It was, the original version was 1,500 pages, and my editor and I whittled it down to like 538 or something like that, right?
So a lot of stuff got cut.
right?
Wow.
I overwrote the book, right?
So when that was a manuscript, my producer, a woman named Alexandra Milchon, one of the sharpest ladies I know, brilliant producer in Hollywood, right?
She slipped that manuscript to Leo DiCaprio,
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Mark Wahlberg, right?
Ultimately, and Wahlberg loved the two.
He wasn't quite his biggest star yet.
Now he's massive, right?
And he was done great too.
I love Mark Wahlberg.
But at the time, it came down to, George Clooney was too old.