Susan Sarandon has signed on to play ShiBeouf’s mother in Money Never Sleeps, and the actor has also apparently been getting some on-set ass from co-star Carey Mulligan. Way more pressingly: the role of The Short Seller has yet to be filled, after Javier Bardem dropped the bomb on a hopeful hedge fund industry, dying for a bowl-cut, and dropped out. Josh Brolin is rumored to be in talks for the part, but I’m not feeling it. Any thespians out there wanna give the casting couch a shot? Bring a little authenticity to this thing? Get your best opportunity for a ShiBe sucker punch?
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mcc looks like she got hit in the face with a sack of quarters last night
Who do I have to cuff to try out for the role of Meredith Whitney?
~Dog the Bounty Hunter
@1 I was thinking the exact same thing….MAJOR pineapple face going on there
is malkovich still in the running for the evil, naked shorter? he’s got to have that russian accent from rounders, though.
I”m having my headshots done as we speak!!
is that a picture od shia posing as GAnalYst?
@4 rumor is that the short seller is no longer the evil character.
Shooter Mcgavin could do it
fuck the part, i just wanna get on that casting couch and S some D!
how about Giancarlo Esposito? not really a heavy hitter, but he played a decent hardass on “The $treet.”
Who is going to play the former Barclays PBM?
James Gandolfini’s breathing as the musical score for the introduction of the nefarious short seller.
beth levin you vicious animal whore you know i’m up for that part.
@1 True, but that is not where her talent lay. For I would give my low hanging left nut to see Cabruso & Cabrera wrapped around my weinerschnitzel.
@wcburrs shanne doherty
padma lakshmi on cnbc soon!
Beth, I mean Bess: Is referring to a female thespian as an “actor,” rather than an “actress” intentional? Some kind of anti-sexist thing?
@17 it’s pretty common actually.
@11 sue hererra
@18-
No shit??! What about the word “waitress?” Is that out too?
- Former NYC denizen, turned hayseed
my dear lord, I wish this piece of shit would hit theatres so the updates will finally end.
I think it would be awesome if they cast Julianne Moore as an older fucked up version of little orphan Annie as the evil short seller.
Maybe as she matured she was tired of competing with money for Daddy Warbuck’s affection and figured the only way that he would approve and love her is if she was wildly successful in the business world.
Therefore, after a stint at HBS she dropped out to run a hedge fund and is now the toast of Wall St. and the apple in Daddy Warbuck’s eye. The methods she uses to gain such outsized returns could be called morally objectionable at best.
@17 – Use of the word “actor” for either gender came back into fashion in the late ’70s, early ’80s. Nice of you to join us!
@11, I counter your Sue Herrera with….Shia Labeouf. He has the range to play both sexes, a la Eddie Murphy in Big Momma’s house.
@21 just for that you’re going to get five more today.
-Bess
John Malkovich has my vote. Intelligent, creepy and a distinct lack of morals about covers it.
@wcburss- thatd make this movie totally worth seeing.
If Tom Cruise could reprise his role from Tropic Thunder, he would have my vote.
@23 taxchick:
I don’t get it, when you say it came into fashion in the 70s. To me, “fashion” implies a type of cyclicality. As in, “fashions come and go.”
So it strikes me as odd that this word would somehow be “fashionable,” and remain so, for over 30 years.
- Former anal analyst, now hayseed
@21 again
Here is #1 of your 5 updates
Hollywood producers who transformed a little-known Thai film festival into an event capable of attracting Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irons and Oliver Stone, face prosecution in the US for allegedly bribing Thai officials.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/17/bangkok-film-festival-organisers-bribery
Bess,
Both links are to the same article and I couldn’t find anything about Shia and Carey Mulligan. Please fix, so I can get mine.
Elias Koteas
Greg is the Pauly Shore of Finance.
I’ love to have that picture blown up for my office. That piece of shit I have now is starting to bore me.
erin burnett can play both sexes. is she boning up on acting classes this week?
Ari Gold as the short-seller. Done.
@31 http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272627570.shtml
@29 – The term Actor originally was applied to both sexes (15C), then somewhere along the way (1700s) the term “actress” came into usage. Then by the early to mid-20th century the term actress took on a questionable connotation (think prostitute). It was at this point that people (in particular women) began to use the term actor for both genders. So while there has been a cyclical nature to the use of the term, it is probably a cycle larger than you are used to dealing with.
beth, who are these no-name actors anyway? these casting agents are clueless. and susan sarandan, with that stanky bassmouth liberal snatchtrap of hers? puh-leeze. gimme that busty red-headed broad from “Madmen”.
@38:
I stand enlightened — chagrined and embarrased by my public display of ignorance. To demonstrate my sincere remorse, I will hack off my right forefinger and mail it to you promptly.
- Pfluger the Hayseed
@33, If you’re edged ’cause I’m weazin all your grindage, just chill. ‘Cause if I had the whole brady bunch thing happenin’ at my pad, I’d go grind over there, so dont tax my gig so hard-core cruster.
@ 39 — agree. the redhead from Madmen is a fuckin’ smokeshow. she could nurse the entire set.
Do think that Shia Labeouf’s character will be more realistic if he has an MBA or a CFA?
beth, speaking of busty redheads, you got any klaman kleave shots for the group? i think she’s got the edge over mandy drooly.
@40/ Pfluger the Hayseed – if you do that, how will you go huntin’? While I may a City girl, I do know you need your trigger finger to fire your Beretta Xtrema 2.
Vince the Slapchop / Shamwow guy for the villain.
BANANAHAMMOCKCLOPS!
@ 40 taxchick:
Good point, though I shun the Beretta brand. I will keep my forefinger, and instead dismember my pinky, which I no longer need, as I no longer attend mid-town cocktail parties with pinky extended, drink in left hand so as to keep right (shaking hand) dry and warm, while chatting bullshit with boring, BSD bankers and their busty associates, then go out to get more drunk at the Monkey Bar…
Not at all familiar with that particular model of Beretta. Its a very personal thing, a man and his favored firearms.
-Pfluger
Bess,
we should have a poll about who the shorter should be…
That is, hands down, the gayest picture of all time. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I respectfully withdraw my request for a Mulligan.
“Actor” for a woman?
What next, I can’t use “aviatrix” for a female pilot?
Best title ever.
@41/greg
Your impressions is nigh on flawless.
Ugh so many bad memories from the 90s….
@52-
women are allowed to fly airplanes now?
Looks a lot like Ron Insana.
What is a four letter word for a class of woman that ends in “(blank) u-n-t…..”?
~Bernie M (Doing a Crossword Puzzle)
@55 -
Sometimes, in hayseed country, the pilots let the stewardesses sit next to the pilot, but never let them actually fly the plane. The pilots let them THINK they are flying the plane, and then the grateful stewardesses will give the pilot a BJ.
- Hayseed Pfluger
@50 but I’d like to see Mrs. Drury in that pose.
you guys are hilarious! i especially liked the link to the article about the thai film festival. i can NOT believe that people might go to jail for life for this silliness. and meanwhile, all your suggestions are amusing me NO END> thanks for an awesome wednesday read you guys!
@53 it would be be funnier without the comma
@8 – yeah, and grizzley adams had a beard.
@8/@62 – Grizzly Adams did have a beard.
Carey Mulligan is a reminder of why no one ever says Irish chicks are hot.
Go back to Kansas Dorothy.
I’m not going to be upstaged by some freak [shudder] sideshow clown.
@66 -
Which one is chaz??
Malcolm McDowell would be great as the short seller. Much more evil looking than John Paulson. And, it would be even better if he turns out not to be the bad guy.
Paul Giamatti
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Jason Alexander as Stevie…
Look up Sarandon’s daughter, Eva Amurri. Holy cans, Batman!
They should get rid of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories then. Can’t have it both ways – either they’re the same or they’re not. Biatches.