Actor Vincent D’Onofrio has played everything from an intergalactic cockroach-turned-farmer in Men in Black to Marvel villain Kingpin in the Daredevil universe.
Now, D’Onofrio will portray New York Mets owner Steven A. Cohen in the upcoming film Dumb Money, which focuses on the GameStop stock market short squeeze of 2021.
Vanity Fair debuted an exclusive look at the upcoming movie, which pulls in Cohen, whose hedge fund Point72 took massive hits during the GameStop incident.
The film will also reportedly feature Cohen’s famous pet pig. Filmmaker Craig Gillespie detailed to Vanity Fair how the very unique household companion factored into the scenes with D’Onofrio’s Cohen.
“The scene with Vincent and the pig walking through the house was inspired the day before [we shot it], because I read a New York Post article that said Steve Cohen apparently had a pet pig that had lived in the house,” Gillespie says.
The filmmaker knew Cohen owned the pet, but had no idea it once freely roamed his 30-room Connecticut mansion. “We had the pig, but it wasn’t going to be in the house,” Gillespie says. “Then I read the article and it was like, Okay, let’s see if we can put him in the house.”
First look at Vincent D’Onofrio and Nick Offerman in ‘DUMB MONEY’
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The film will release this fall and also features actors like Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, America Ferrera, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Ramos, Dane DeHaan and Nick Offerman.
