You’d think that Donald Trump would be used to film sets after his star-making cameo in Home Alone 2, but the former president supposedly acted like “a complete and utter buffoon” on the set of The Wolf of Wall Street.
Cristin Milioti, who played Jordan Belfort’s first wife Teresa in the film, made the hilarious revelation in an interview with The Independent.
According to the actress, Trump casually decided to show up on set when the film was shooting outside of Trump Tower in Manhattan. “Ugh. He crashed the set and he was a complete and utter buffoon, as we all know.” The Independent comically added, “She doesn’t want to give [Trump] any more airtime than that.”
The scene in question saw Milioti’s Teresa discover Jordan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is cheating on her. After opening a limousine door, she sees Jordan snorting cocaine off a woman’s chest and proceeds to hit him repeatedly. And it turns out Milioti really got into the moment. “I just kind of slapped the hell out of him (DiCaprio) for 12 hours,” she recalled.
Elsewhere in the interview, Milioti discussed her controversial role as the mother in How I Met Your Mother. Fans, if you’ll recall, were outraged when it was revealed in the sitcom’s finale that the character they’d waited nine seasons to see had actually died several years earlier.
It wasn’t a problem for the actress though. “I had never seen the show when I signed on to it, which was a huge blessing because I didn’t understand the pressure that was behind that reveal. Like, I truly had no idea,” Milioti insisted. “I was isolated from it in a way. I know there was a very strong reaction, but I never looked into it.”
Milioti is currently doing the promotional rounds for The Resort, a new series from Sam Esmail, the creator of Mr. Robot. She’s part of a star-studded cast alongside William Jackson Harper (The Good Place) and Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreation). The Resort follows a married couple who find themselves drawn into a strange mystery that took place fifteen years earlier, and will be available to stream on Stan in August.
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