Star of the
Netflix true-crime documentary shares his casting preferences, though the only actor so far attached to a project is Kate McKinnonWarning: this story contains spoilers for Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and MadnessJoe Exotic, the central figure in the hit Netflix true-crime series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, has named
Brad Pitt or David Spade as his preferred actors to play him in any future film adaptation.
Speaking to the
Hollywood Reporter, one of the series’ directors, Rebecca Chaiklin, said that Exotic (AKA Joseph Maldonado-Passage), who is currently serving a 22-year sentence in a
Texas prison for attempting murder for hire, suggested the pair – though he referred to Spade as “Joe Dirt”, his character from the 2001
comedy described by the late critic Roger Ebert as a “low-rent Forrest Gump”.