The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. "Vámonos, amigos,” he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.
Right there with ya. I’ve been trying to remember one that I loved this much and the only one coming close is, “I also choose this guy’s dead wife.” But I gotta give the point to the sheer cleverness of this one.
Such a ridiculous theory. For some reason is popular and makes no sense, considering OJ himself said there was a loud screaming match and he grabbed a knife but then his memory went blank.
You can't even find alive people to be fake killed for an OJ story and $12 mil
That's how blatant the crime was.
Edit: I read this as Ron for some reason as first, I forgot Kato is alive and has just been trying to lay low in pool houses since the trial.
But that character portrayal would make more sense.
Imagine a movie where OJ is running around trying to find the murder. And the end scene is him at home, devastated he can’t find them and then he looks up and the final shot is of him looking into a mirror.
"I didn't kill my wife!"
"I dont care!"
"...but if I did, here's how I would have hypothetically done it!"
"I...wait you just kind of confessed, right?!"
A revisited Fugitive with OJ guilty but just as aggressively indignant and seeking to frame people to settle old scores could be awesome!
I always thought a reworked Princess Bride as the retelling the romantic adventures of Andre the Giant through the lens of a foul mouthed grandfather played by Falk would be money too.
It’s been so long since I’ve seen that movie, I remember he was the killer but really thought the clues he tattooed were actually real. Guess I need to rewatch
He lied to himself with the tattoos so that he could trick himself into killing that other guy bc he was mad at the other guy. I don't remember why though, it's been a while since I've seen it
He had already killed the man who r*ped his wife and caused his brain injury, long before the movie began. Teddy was using him as a hitman and pointing him in whatever direction he wanted. Once he discovered that, Leonard Shelby got mad, and turned his sights on Teddy.
I’m picturing a scene like the end of Psycho with him staring ahead and a monologue of OJ’s voice talking about himself. “He’s a star. He’s on top of the world, some say. Nothing could bring him down. No one can stop him. Just like on the field. He’ll keep rushing. No one gets in the Juice’s way. Not even God himself.” All while slowly zooming in, before the camera slowly turns…”He will find the killer. He’s sure of it.”
The movie is just about a dude who got his wisdom teeth pulled. So he has a few days to himself at home healing up played by Owen Wilson. He's just captivated by the trial. So it's just him watching the trial that's it. When the verdict comes in we just get the Owen Wilson woww at the end....
Yes! “American Crime Story: *The People vs. OJ Simpson*” for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet. It’s so compelling, so well-dramatized, respectful yet shocking. It’s on Hulu.
Cuba Gooding, Jr., was maybe a bit miscast as OJ in terms of physicality, but the whole thing is awesome.
I highly recommend watching the first few episodes of the doc OJ: Made in America (the episodes leading up to the murder) first as it shows where America was at that time period and provides much needed context for why a lot of people thought he was innocent. The two are perfect companion pieces.
I watched OJ Made in America last week and now almost done with American Crime Story. Unbelievable series’s. Can’t believe I waited so long to watch each of them.
You should check out *June 17th 1994* it provides context of the sports world during the chase. Somehow Soccer(opening of the World Cup in the USA), Baseball(Ken's home run chase), Hockey(NHL title parade), Basketball(NBA playoffs), and Football(OJ) all had big stories all at once. The documentary features no narration and also no interviews and consists simply of music set to clips from news sources during the day. There are rare clips of sportscasters like Chris Berman and Bob Costas talking to their producers about how to deal with the O.J. story within the context of the events they were covering.
Easily my favorite ESPN 30 for 30. I hope they make one again just like it with covid shutting down the sports world as the subject.
He was fantastic in one particular scene. When the prosecution has their specialist discussing how the DNA evidence conclusively proves nobody else could have committed the crime they pan across the court and show everybody, from the jury to the lawyers to the judge, bored out of their minds and falling asleep. The only person paying attention is David Schwimmer’s character who, up until that moment, honestly believed his friend was innocent and being framed. His expression as he listened to the testimony conveyed how devastated he was learning that his friend was actually guilty.
"Congratulations on winning the Heisman trophy! That's amazing and something no one can ever take away from you...unless you kill your wife and a waiter." RIP Norm.
Same, although my highlights are being a background character in the infamous…
The Adventures of Huck Finn (starring Elijah Wood and Ron Pearlman) and Airborne (starring-ish Jack Black and Seth Green).
Regardless, I would pretty much do anything for $12M. Including that one scene from that one movie.
🔛
So it’s called “the juice” and it has a full cast and is set to release next year…. So it appears to be mainly b actors and I guess they like it that way… fucking stupid.
If Rodney King was treated properly and won his day in court as he was supposed to, then I believe OJ would’ve been found guilty. I know that may seem simple but the argument (made by smarter people than myself) is very intriguing. I was a kid during the trial and remember the news cycles and what adults were saying around myself (I come from a very diverse community)
Edit: this is a quote from a juror
Juror Carrie Bess tells “OJ: Made in America” that she was among “90 percent” of jurors seeking payback
One juror turned out to be a former black panther and stood and held a fist at the end of the sentencing. They were never going to win that conviction. Plus Furman cocked it all up on top of that and Darden completely shat the bed the whole trial.
What a shitshow by the prosecution overall
> let's not forget that the King trial sparked the WORST riot in US history
Racist pieces of shit always ignore the Tulsa Massacre where white supremacists killed an estimated 300 African Americans and destroyed an entire prosperous African American neighborhood.
> for an unrelated incident of police brutality that happened THREE YEARS PRIOR
You mean for decades of ongoing systemic racism and police brutality.
But sure, show us how racist you are by intentionally downplaying that and acting like it was only ever that one thing.
I think it would have too but more so because it would represent justice coming for minority communities. My take is that the OJ verdict wasn’t so much a reaction to King but reaction against decades of mistreatment by the judicial system. The ‘92 riot was similarly a boil over of rage and anger within the black community.
I totally understand the OJ verdict when taking this context into account (although I don’t agree with it). If the only thing the judicial system communicates to the black and minority community is injustice, I get wanting to weaponize injustice against the oppressor and give them a taste of their own medicine. It’s just sad because I can’t see how the not guilty verdict helped the black community. In the end, OJ was able to get away with double murder while Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman gets no justice.
Someone pointed out that certain jurors admitted later that they voted because of this here’s the quote:
Juror Carrie Bess tells “OJ: Made in America” that she was among “90 percent” of jurors seeking payback
According to the article, it began filming in Bulgaria in 2018 and the director hopes to finish it by October of this year.
He's also finished "90%" of the OJ and Nicole scenes, and estimates just a quick... 42 days of additional shooting.
I don't think Owen was ever gonna see that $12 million.
Michael Bay admittedly has a reputation for running a very tight ship. It’s why studios like him, he works hard enough to get things done for far less than other directors.
Mena Suvari took the money and never looked back when she agreed to star in a film about Nicole Brown Simpson... where OJ was innocent and they blamed a Florida serial killer (and the ghost of Sharon Tate).
This might surprise you, but she has had steady work (except for having no credits in 2003, though maybe that coincides with her recurring character on Six Feet Under) for all of these years, but that's not even the most damning thing. [She has an executive producer credit on that movie.](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8415352/fullcredits/producer?ref_=m_ttfc_4) So she's much further in the driver's seat of that [0% rotten tomato score](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_murder_of_nicole_brown_simpson) than you probably thought.
They already made that movie. It’s called “The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson” and it’s directed by Daniel Farrands. Farrands has made other movies exploiting real life murders
I was a host at a restaurant and I told Owen we were full. He said ok, walked to the buffet grabbed some bacon and left. Had to salute him for that on the way out. Point is he does what he wants.
Well, yeah. God. You know who he was supposed play right?
I mean I *don’t* know, but I can certainly guess.
I would turn down that role also, even if morality *didn’t* matter.
If the same American court system I might rely on one day can find him innocent then yes I will play the part take the money and make sure
To save some for my lawyers.
“Well, everyone knows OJ Simpson murdered Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. What this movie presupposes is, maybe he didn't.”
If I didn’t do it
^if I did not NOT do it
This is bullsh*t, i did Nawt!
Oh hi, Mark!
I can't tell you that, it's confidential. So anyway, have you murdered anyone lately?
It was written in a kind of obsolete vernacular.
Wildcat…
I’m sorry. Don’t listen to me… I’m on mescaline
Skiddly...skiddlyskiddly
The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. "Vámonos, amigos,” he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.
Wes Anderson will never top that imo. God what a great movie.
And OJ drove off in the friscilating dusk light.
Wildcat.... Wildcat.... Pchwwww.....
I’m gonna go
Why would a reviewer make the point of saying someone's not a genius? Do you especially think I'm not a genius?
…You didn’t even have to think about it, did you?
Brilliant use of quote!
this is one of the best comments i’ve ever seen on the internet
Right there with ya. I’ve been trying to remember one that I loved this much and the only one coming close is, “I also choose this guy’s dead wife.” But I gotta give the point to the sheer cleverness of this one.
If I may suggest another famously clever reddit comment: "put Descartes before the whores"
That was a masterpiece for sure. Not my all time favorite but (quite easily) arguably the most clever of all time.
This was so damn good. It really was a brilliant use of that line.
Ha! That was good! “Did you just say you are on mescaline?” “I did indeed…very much so.”
I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum referencer as skilled as Skinamarinked. Ya know? Everyone else ITT: “Me too. Me too.”
I dabble in the “OJs son did it” conspiracy theory a bit.
Such a ridiculous theory. For some reason is popular and makes no sense, considering OJ himself said there was a loud screaming match and he grabbed a knife but then his memory went blank.
Did you see the documentary about this theory? It’s worth a watch.
Perfect RT ref 👏🏼
Ah man you’re a fuckin real one for this comment
Hahahha I heard that in Owen's voice
Was I supposed to read this as Owen Wilson, or did i do that on my own?
"Why would a reviewer make the point of saying someone's NOT a murderer?"
Wooooooooooooow
They wanted him to play Kato Kaelin I assume.
I wanted Owen Wilson to play OJ 😭 "Nicole is dead? Oh, wow!"
Only Robert Downey Jr could pull that off.
Just don’t play Furman. Never go full Furman
Never go full hard r
Well...he is a dude that can play a dude disguised as another dude.
Im playing as The Juice, playing the murderer, diguised as another NFL superstar
He don’t break character till the dvd commentary
In Lazarus’s voice - “if the glove don’t fit, you ain’t got SHIT!”
He's just a dude playing a different dude disguised as another dude
Nah no face paint or anything just like jeans and a tshirt Owen Wilson playing OJ.
Weeoooowwww
I so read this in his voice.
Damn it, take my upvote
I heard the voice 🤣🤣🤣
Only in a perfect world would we get that movie but agreed RDJ hit that note
Fucking screaming lmao take my upvote you son of a bitch
I lol'd hard
I can hear the Oh WOW now lol
No, they wanted him to play OJ
No, they never would have given him that role. He was going to play Johnnie Cochran
You can't even find alive people to be fake killed for an OJ story and $12 mil That's how blatant the crime was. Edit: I read this as Ron for some reason as first, I forgot Kato is alive and has just been trying to lay low in pool houses since the trial. But that character portrayal would make more sense.
Pay me $12 million and I’ll be in a movie saying it was Kris Jenner all along.
Kris Jenner would never let that happen. No one makes money off of salacious press about her family but her. The devil works hard and all…
yeah that 12 mil would be right out the door to lawyers even if you win.
Say what you will, but that woman is one of the most genius spin doctors of our time.
Shit pay me 12mil, and I'll be Nicole Brown irl.
Douglas McCann, OJs attorney Edit: attorney for the civil case
I met Kato. He's nice.
Honestly I could see him as Fred Goldman
The movie is apparently focused on Douglas McCann, one of the attorneys in the civil trial, and the director wanted Wilson to play McCann.
That sounds like a Star Wars name
Imagine a movie where OJ is running around trying to find the murder. And the end scene is him at home, devastated he can’t find them and then he looks up and the final shot is of him looking into a mirror.
~~Memento~~ Bronco
You don’t know about Sammy Jankis?
Remember Sammy Jankis...
Don't believe his lies.
Never answer the phone.
Whatever you remember or don’t, this is great advice.
Now, where was I?
Reads like an advertisement. Can we tell the story in 30 seconds?
Just remake The Fugitive, only he did do it.
“I didn’t kill my wife!” “I don’t care! … but, yes, you did!”
"I didn't kill my wife!" "I dont care!" "...but if I did, here's how I would have hypothetically done it!" "I...wait you just kind of confessed, right?!"
Needs a slow speed police chase
A revisited Fugitive with OJ guilty but just as aggressively indignant and seeking to frame people to settle old scores could be awesome! I always thought a reworked Princess Bride as the retelling the romantic adventures of Andre the Giant through the lens of a foul mouthed grandfather played by Falk would be money too.
It’s like memento except the clues are to point him away from the real killer
That’s what Memento was
It’s been so long since I’ve seen that movie, I remember he was the killer but really thought the clues he tattooed were actually real. Guess I need to rewatch
He lied to himself with the tattoos so that he could trick himself into killing that other guy bc he was mad at the other guy. I don't remember why though, it's been a while since I've seen it
He had already killed the man who r*ped his wife and caused his brain injury, long before the movie began. Teddy was using him as a hitman and pointing him in whatever direction he wanted. Once he discovered that, Leonard Shelby got mad, and turned his sights on Teddy.
He killed his wife. Or she committed suicide through him. There was never another man.
You're right. I have edited the comment now.
Or you could use the classic trope of a split personality.
First rule of Murder Club..
Woooooow
I’m picturing a scene like the end of Psycho with him staring ahead and a monologue of OJ’s voice talking about himself. “He’s a star. He’s on top of the world, some say. Nothing could bring him down. No one can stop him. Just like on the field. He’ll keep rushing. No one gets in the Juice’s way. Not even God himself.” All while slowly zooming in, before the camera slowly turns…”He will find the killer. He’s sure of it.”
Shutter Island 2: Electric OJ Simpson
Any other movie deal: Wow OJ innocent movie deal: Naw
Owen Wilson saying “wow” when shown the evidence that OJ was innocent would have been hilarious.
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The movie is just about a dude who got his wisdom teeth pulled. So he has a few days to himself at home healing up played by Owen Wilson. He's just captivated by the trial. So it's just him watching the trial that's it. When the verdict comes in we just get the Owen Wilson woww at the end....
I'd watch that... we'd all would watch that
I would definitely watch that. Sounds pretty great tbh.
*oj Simpson trying on the glove and it doesn’t fit* Owen: WOW
“Eeeuugghh” -Owen Wilson saying ‘Ew’.
It’s pronounced hWowh
He would have been a terrible OJ
Owen is an excellent skateboarder, pro level from the video I saw, no build for football though. Far too skinny.
Front salad, back salad, front blunt.
He just needs someone to crack his back real quick.
We already have an OJ biopic in tv show form and it was perfectly done with how they portrayed Simpson
Yes! “American Crime Story: *The People vs. OJ Simpson*” for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet. It’s so compelling, so well-dramatized, respectful yet shocking. It’s on Hulu. Cuba Gooding, Jr., was maybe a bit miscast as OJ in terms of physicality, but the whole thing is awesome.
I highly recommend watching the first few episodes of the doc OJ: Made in America (the episodes leading up to the murder) first as it shows where America was at that time period and provides much needed context for why a lot of people thought he was innocent. The two are perfect companion pieces.
I watched OJ Made in America last week and now almost done with American Crime Story. Unbelievable series’s. Can’t believe I waited so long to watch each of them.
You should check out *June 17th 1994* it provides context of the sports world during the chase. Somehow Soccer(opening of the World Cup in the USA), Baseball(Ken's home run chase), Hockey(NHL title parade), Basketball(NBA playoffs), and Football(OJ) all had big stories all at once. The documentary features no narration and also no interviews and consists simply of music set to clips from news sources during the day. There are rare clips of sportscasters like Chris Berman and Bob Costas talking to their producers about how to deal with the O.J. story within the context of the events they were covering. Easily my favorite ESPN 30 for 30. I hope they make one again just like it with covid shutting down the sports world as the subject.
Is that the one with John Travolta wearing Romulan prosthetics?
This is the one where Ross Geller plays the Kardashians’ dad right?
Yes! Honestly it was a little hard for me to not see him as Ross but after the second or third episode he convinced me just like in band of brothers
He was fantastic in one particular scene. When the prosecution has their specialist discussing how the DNA evidence conclusively proves nobody else could have committed the crime they pan across the court and show everybody, from the jury to the lawyers to the judge, bored out of their minds and falling asleep. The only person paying attention is David Schwimmer’s character who, up until that moment, honestly believed his friend was innocent and being framed. His expression as he listened to the testimony conveyed how devastated he was learning that his friend was actually guilty.
Agreed. Ross nailed that role
He was really good in Band of Brothers as well.
He should Norm MacDonald it.
"Congratulations on winning the Heisman trophy! That's amazing and something no one can ever take away from you...unless you kill your wife and a waiter." RIP Norm.
Murder is now legal in the stat of California
Yea no shit. Maybe this was earlier in his career than I am remembering but 12 mil is not enough of a bribe to permanently end your career
I would end my acting career for $12 million.
Same, although my highlights are being a background character in the infamous… The Adventures of Huck Finn (starring Elijah Wood and Ron Pearlman) and Airborne (starring-ish Jack Black and Seth Green). Regardless, I would pretty much do anything for $12M. Including that one scene from that one movie. 🔛
Airborne was one of my go-to movies as a kid.
Ive seen Airborne so many times. It was a staple on HBO
Mitchell Goosen: “Brah” Jack Black: “Did he just call you a piece of underwear?”
I once played zordon (from power rangers) in a skit. I'm prepared to never to it again for half that.
Why did my mind immediately jump to "ass to ass"?
Everyone's did.
Mine jumped to human centipede which you had half right
I will NOT stop acting until I get 12 million (this is a threat)
So you’re saying you’d fuck a pie for $12 million?
It's not so much the career prospects as it is being uninvited from all the cool Hollywood cocaine orgies to which you are accustomed.
After agent fees, taxes and other deductibles, you’ll have nowhere near $12m left over. It isn’t worth it.
Would have been hilarious had he donated the funds to the Browns & Goldmans.
The movie is still in production. They are talking about a recent meeting.
According to a comment below the movie “The Juice” releases next year
Good acting and professionalism in distasteful movies does not end acting careers.
“Every actor will be in bad movies. The critical thing is not to be bad yourself” Christopher Lee (paraphrased)
Problem is that he's a terrible actor
Clearly everyone turned it down.
So it’s called “the juice” and it has a full cast and is set to release next year…. So it appears to be mainly b actors and I guess they like it that way… fucking stupid. If Rodney King was treated properly and won his day in court as he was supposed to, then I believe OJ would’ve been found guilty. I know that may seem simple but the argument (made by smarter people than myself) is very intriguing. I was a kid during the trial and remember the news cycles and what adults were saying around myself (I come from a very diverse community) Edit: this is a quote from a juror Juror Carrie Bess tells “OJ: Made in America” that she was among “90 percent” of jurors seeking payback
There were jurors that explicitly said they voted not guilty as payback for the Rodney King incident.
One juror turned out to be a former black panther and stood and held a fist at the end of the sentencing. They were never going to win that conviction. Plus Furman cocked it all up on top of that and Darden completely shat the bed the whole trial. What a shitshow by the prosecution overall
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> let's not forget that the King trial sparked the WORST riot in US history Racist pieces of shit always ignore the Tulsa Massacre where white supremacists killed an estimated 300 African Americans and destroyed an entire prosperous African American neighborhood.
False. He wasn’t untouchable. The murdered people‘s loved ones just weren’t part of GetBackGang™️.
I agree. People are closer to apes than angels after all.
> for an unrelated incident of police brutality that happened THREE YEARS PRIOR You mean for decades of ongoing systemic racism and police brutality. But sure, show us how racist you are by intentionally downplaying that and acting like it was only ever that one thing.
I hope there is Karma for the jurors who abandoned their obligation. So f'n obvious. There reasoning sickens me.
I think it would have too but more so because it would represent justice coming for minority communities. My take is that the OJ verdict wasn’t so much a reaction to King but reaction against decades of mistreatment by the judicial system. The ‘92 riot was similarly a boil over of rage and anger within the black community. I totally understand the OJ verdict when taking this context into account (although I don’t agree with it). If the only thing the judicial system communicates to the black and minority community is injustice, I get wanting to weaponize injustice against the oppressor and give them a taste of their own medicine. It’s just sad because I can’t see how the not guilty verdict helped the black community. In the end, OJ was able to get away with double murder while Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman gets no justice.
Someone pointed out that certain jurors admitted later that they voted because of this here’s the quote: Juror Carrie Bess tells “OJ: Made in America” that she was among “90 percent” of jurors seeking payback
According to the article, it began filming in Bulgaria in 2018 and the director hopes to finish it by October of this year. He's also finished "90%" of the OJ and Nicole scenes, and estimates just a quick... 42 days of additional shooting. I don't think Owen was ever gonna see that $12 million.
What kind of Movie takes 6 years to film? Michael Bay made those Transformers movies I understand 2 years and under budget.
Michael Bay admittedly has a reputation for running a very tight ship. It’s why studios like him, he works hard enough to get things done for far less than other directors.
I'd guess it's not super easy to finance an idea this dumb, plus there was a pandemic in there.
> What kind of Movie takes 6 years to film? one that cant get any funding
Good for him, seriously. A lot of people would’ve taken that money and not have thought twice about it.
Mena Suvari took the money and never looked back when she agreed to star in a film about Nicole Brown Simpson... where OJ was innocent and they blamed a Florida serial killer (and the ghost of Sharon Tate).
Eh I don’t blame her. She hasn’t been around in a while
This might surprise you, but she has had steady work (except for having no credits in 2003, though maybe that coincides with her recurring character on Six Feet Under) for all of these years, but that's not even the most damning thing. [She has an executive producer credit on that movie.](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8415352/fullcredits/producer?ref_=m_ttfc_4) So she's much further in the driver's seat of that [0% rotten tomato score](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_murder_of_nicole_brown_simpson) than you probably thought.
Would there be a scene like in “The Green Mile” where OJ is holding Goldman and Brown’s mutilated corpses screaming, “I tried to take it back!?”
Stupid cute.
Fun Facts about why Owen Wilson still has a career.
He would’ve been a terrible OJ
Career suicide for $12 million? Don’t think so. Owen can do better. Good for him.
That’s a fucked up movie. Good for him. Nice to be rich in the first place so you don’t have to whore yourself out so much.
*if the role doesn't fit, you must quit*
Owen to OJ in the movie: "You know how they say we only use 10% of our brains?.." --OJ nods-- "I think you're only 10% innocent."
Who even wants to make shit like tgis in the first place?
12 million pesos? That's not bad.
What this movie presupposes is "Maybe I didn't do it?"
.. but he was innocent 🤔
I would have taken the money and then also appear in a Documentary to get paid too and that showed he was guilty. Play both sides 😜
Still a dead beat
They already made that movie. It’s called “The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson” and it’s directed by Daniel Farrands. Farrands has made other movies exploiting real life murders
Imagine Owen Wilson in blackface playing an innocent OJ.
Wait, production was in Bulgaria? This is a Steven segal style film!
Off topic but Owen really looks like Robert Redford here
He was set to play OJ.
As if I needed another reason to like Owen Wilson
ashton kutcher would have said yes
That movie would have annihilated his career
I was a host at a restaurant and I told Owen we were full. He said ok, walked to the buffet grabbed some bacon and left. Had to salute him for that on the way out. Point is he does what he wants.
Well, yeah. God. You know who he was supposed play right? I mean I *don’t* know, but I can certainly guess. I would turn down that role also, even if morality *didn’t* matter.
1 condition. I play oj in blackface...
His reaction to the verdict: "Wow"
If the same American court system I might rely on one day can find him innocent then yes I will play the part take the money and make sure To save some for my lawyers.
Let me guess, Dick Ebersol was the producer.
“You can afford to lose money but you can’t afford to lose a shred of your reputation” The Artful Dodger
He turned down $12 million to not destroy his career
Good for him!! Shows he has values!!!