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Shark Tank\u2019s Kevin O\u2019Leary isn\u2019t used to taking orders, yet as an actor for the new movie Marty Supreme<\/em>, the prolific investor had no other choice.<\/p>\n O\u2019Leary has been a millionaire for more than 25 years and a prolific investor since then. He sold his software company SoftKey to Mattel for $4.2 billion in 1999. More recently, he has invested an estimated $8.5 million into about 40 companies in his role as a judge on Shark Tank<\/em> since its inaugural 2009 season.<\/p>\n Yet, on the set of Marty Supreme, where he played ruthless millionaire businessman Milton Rockwell opposite Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s character Marty Mauser, O\u2019Leary learned that just because he calls the shots in every other aspect of his life, doesn\u2019t mean he was holding the reins on set. <\/p>\n (Minor to major spoilers follow for Marty Supreme<\/em>.)<\/p>\n \u201cI learned my lesson that film sets are not democracies. I\u2019m not used to being told what to do. I do the telling,\u201d O\u2019Leary told Variety<\/em>. \u201cWe shot something 20 times and I said to Josh [Safdie], \u2018OK, I think we got it. We can move on.\u2019 He said, \u2018What the f*** are you talking about? There\u2019s no moving on until I say we\u2019re moving on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Yet, although O\u2019Leary was not in control on set, Safdie and co-writer Ronald Bronstein were happy to include his notes for a character that echoed some of his own personality. One of the most prominent was a monologue delivered by Rockwell to Mauser in which he claimed to be a \u201cvampire\u201d born in 1601.<\/p>\n O\u2019Leary also contributed to Rockwell\u2019s look, and leveraged his knowledge as a horophile when choosing the two watches his character wore on each wrist, one set for New York and the other for Tokyo time. <\/p>\n O\u2019Leary refused to wear a prop watch or to wear a watch he didn\u2019t own. Instead, he went on a global hunt for era-appropriate pieces to wear in the film.<\/p>\n He called up Rolex and secured a Patek Phillipe from the 1950\u2019s which he admittedly purchased \u201cat a crazy price.\u201d The other, a Seiko-made watch called \u201cSuper\u201d from 1952 was impossible to find on the secondary market. In the end, \u201cSeiko found one \u2014 it might have come from some museum \u2014 and they gifted it to me,\u201d O\u2019Leary told the New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n Maybe one of O\u2019Leary\u2019s most memorable scenes was when he literally smacked the Oscar-nominated Chalamet on his bare butt with a real ping pong paddle in order to bring more authenticity to a pivotal scene that he said required 40 takes and took until 4 a.m. to finish.<\/p>\n To be sure, one of his biggest qualms with the film was the ending, which wraps up poorly for his character, and which he called \u201cabsurd,\u201d according to Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cI had lots of fights with Ronnie [Bronstein]\u2014 well, not fights, but I said, \u2018Guys, this Marty Supreme<\/em> guy, I would never let anybody [expletive] me over like this. This would never happen to me, ever. And he is not paying an adequate price,\u2019\u201d O\u2019Leary told the New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n Yet, not all of the Shark Tank<\/em> judge\u2019s suggestions were incorporated into the final cut. Apparently, the investor and rookie actor suggested changes for the film\u2019s ending, including that Chalamet\u2019s character\u2019s love interest, Rachel Mizler (played by Odessa A’zion) should die in childbirth in order to add more suffering to an otherwise \u201ckumbaya\u201d ending. In the end, Safdie considered the change but didn\u2019t incorporate it as he thought it was too \u201csick,\u201d according to Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n O\u2019Leary is not used to being an employee. Just before he sold SoftKey, the company had acquired many of its competitors and stood as the second-largest consumer software company at the time with 2,000 employees. <\/p>\n As a judge on Shark Tank<\/em>, he is also used to entrepreneurs seeking him out for his advice, even though he is often brutally honest to contestants on the show. This includes the founders behind The Lip Bar, whom O\u2019Leary told \u201cthe chances that this is a business are practically zero.\u201d The lipstick company raised $6.7 million in a 2022 funding round and later went on to tease O\u2019Leary via billboard advertisement.<\/p>\n O\u2019Leary was scouted by director Josh Safdie for the part of Rockwell in Marty Supreme<\/em> partly because of his reputation on Shark Tank<\/em>. In fact, according to O\u2019Leary, Safdie sought him out for the role of Rockwell for the same reason television producer Mark Burnett liked him for Shark Tank<\/em>, \u201cWe\u2019re looking for a real asshole,\u201d Safdie reportedly told O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n Safdie, who previously co-directed A24\u2019s Uncut Gems, accepted a flight on a private jet to O\u2019Leary\u2019s lake house in Muskoka, Canada, to hear him read for the part. As O\u2019Leary admittedly explores other acting opportunities (although he is reportedly waiting for the promotional cycle to end before taking another role) he said he is happy to play the antagonist\u2014and would ideally love to play a bond villain.<\/p>\n \u201cI say this asshole thing\u2019s starting to work for me,\u201d O\u2019Leary told Vanity Fair<\/em>.<\/p>\n This story was originally featured on Fortune.com<\/p>\n #Shark #Tanks #Wonderful #Kevin #OLeary #learned #hard #movie #sets #dont #work #boardrooms #Marty #Supreme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shark Tank\u2019s Kevin O\u2019Leary isn… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[5355,624,1223,105,723,92,3564,3520,3124,7546,3553,7545,846,7543,7542,503,7544,1571,1365,1606],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}O’Leary’s contributions to the film<\/h2>\n
A reluctant “employee”<\/h2>\n