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the executive side of the boiler room, Tom Everett Scott was cast
against type as the baby-faced head of the investment firm. "What I
loved about the character is that he´s not the kind of guy you´d
imagine would have more money than God," notes Scott. "But he does.
He´s not the guy who went to Harvard, who worked for years on Wall
Street, who you would expect to head a brokerage. But what he is,
this guy, is very, very assured of himself, the kind of guy who
could sell snowballs to Eskimos. It was a lot of fun to play with
this."
Adds
Ben Younger: "Tom is such a sweetheart that people wondered about
him in this role, but he really pushed it and played up the
contrasts for the sleaziest role in the movie. It was great to have
someone who is at the very opposite of the extreme play a real
scumbag."
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Michael
Brantley
