Michael Lewis

And then what happened, this is creepy.

After I published the book, this came out somewhere else.

And roughly, almost exactly the same time I was working on the magazine piece, the CFO of Goldman Sachs, a guy at the time named David Vineyard, wrote a memo about what was going on in the markets.

And he called the trade, he said, the trade here is the big shorts.

If the big short is shorting the housing market.

So he came up with the title.

It's one of my favorite titles.

It's great.

I mean, all the same actors could still do it.

So Ryan Gosling as Greg Lipman, I cannot improve upon that.

I just can't.

I wouldn't even know where to start.

And Christian Bale as Michael Burry.

I just can't do any better than that.

So I would cast those two, they could still do it, and I'd cast them.

I love Steve Carell's performance, but I could think of, like, what actor, you help me, what actor, when you see him, is fingernails on chalkboard?

Like is so upsetting, like irritating.

His job is to irritate.

Well, we had a list.

We recast this.