Tiger King’s Joe Exotic wants Brad Pitt OR David Spade to play him in movie, director claims
TIGER King's Joe Exotic would love to have Brad Pitt or David Spade play him in a movie, the directors of the Netflix docuseries revealed.
The directors also claimed that Joe, born Joseph Maldonado-Passage, doesn't really see David as himself, but rather as his character of Joe Dirt.
Rebecca said: "He would like Brad Pitt or David Spade to play him."
She furthered explained: "He doesn’t refer to David Spade as David Spade - he refers to him as Joe Dirt.'"
"He’s been cut off from phones, but Joe is somebody who has always wanted to be a star, and so he’s very excited for this to have captured people’s attention the way it did."
She assured the interviewer that he didn't have COVID-19, but was isolated after being transferred to a federal penitentiary in Texas.
Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon is set to play Carole, as well as executive produce the adaptation with Universal Content Productions.
A few days later, it was .
Robert told Andy Cohen: "We’ve been talking a lot of names … [Jojo Rabbit star] Sam Rockwell was one of the names that came up a lot to play Joe Exotic."
He told the host during SiriusXM show Radio Andy: "My preferred casting - and this is off the wall - would be Margot Robbie.
"I think Margot Robbie should play Joe in a like a gender switch [thing]."
He explained why he believes Margot would be a good fit for the part: "Just look at her eyes, that’s the thing.
"If you look at her eyes, she has these eyes that are just like Joe’s.
"I think she would do a great job with it."
Robert revealed to Andy other potential casting decisions: "I heard John C. Reilly should play Doc Antle, I like that one a lot."
He said during an interview on "There’s a big name. I would have to say Channing Tatum."
"I think it was about four or five years ago he did a shoutout to [my cousin] Alyssa Finlay who had stage four breast cancer.
"And one of her bucket lists was to have Channing Tatum give her a kiss and he did on Skype. Since he did that for my cousin, I would actually like him to play me."
Tiger King is a Netflix documentary that brought to light the business of large cat-owners across the US.
The series followed Joe Exotic and his story of becoming a private zoo owner due to his love of big cats, while also following his rivalry with Carole.
Their bitter rivalry escalated to new heights when Joe Exotic tried to hire a hitman for $3,000 to kill Carole.
He is currently serving 22 years behind bars for trafficking and killing animals - and trying to murder the big cat activist.
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