Celebrities like Dax Shepard and Jared Leto are clamoring to play “Tiger King’s” Joe Exotic in a biopic based on the hit Netflix docuseries.
Online betters, with sports to wager on, are putting their money on Kevin Bacon in the titular role. But now, Joe himself has offered an opinion on who should play the role. “He would like Brad Pitt or David Spade to play him,” “Tiger King” directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, told the Hollywood Reporter.
Only, “he doesn’t refer to David Spade as David Spade — he refers to him as ‘Joe Dirt.’ ” Joe Exotic, real name Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage, 57, is currently serving 22 years in prison (convicted in 2019) for animal abuse and for a murder for hire plot to kill Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin