‘Madoff’ Star Richard Dreyfuss Explains Why He Turned Down a Meeting With Famous Con Artist

‘Madoff’ Star Richard Dreyfuss Explains Why He Turned Down a Meeting With Famous Con Artist, Richard Dreyfuss plays Bernie Madoff, one of the a lot of acknowledged con men in history in ABC's "Madoff" miniseries, but the amateur says he anesthetized up the adventitious to accommodated man he'd be assuming on screen.

"I had the opportunity, I assumption to allege with him on the phone, but I angry it down," Dreyfuss said in and account with TheWrap. "I figured, what was he traveling to do? Tell me the truth? I agnosticism it. And I already had a Queens accent, so he couldn't advice me there."

The miniseries, which is based on the book "The Madoff Chronicles: Inside the Secret Apple of Bernie and Ruth" by ABC News contributor Brian Ross, tells the adventure of a man who was adamant in his banking scam, demography humans for millions of dollars after a batting an eye.

Dreyfuss describes Madoff as a "sociopath" who didn't affliction about anyone or anything, but he aswell says there's one affair about the con that he can't amount out.

"He never let his sons into that allotment of the business," he said. "He kept them out of alive or accommodating in the sin. Did he do that out of love? Or because that would've messed things up in his family? I don't know."

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TheWrap: What is it about Bernie Madoff and his crimes that accomplish for such a acute story?

Dreyfuss: Well, it was not alone the a lot of acknowledged Ponzi arrangement in all of history by a agency of 20, but it's aswell something that we're told addressed the better villains [of the 2008 banking crisis]. But in actuality it did none of those things. Bernie was annihilation added than a distraction. He was a accusable as hell distraction, but he had annihilation to do with the abomination and bad ethical behaviors of Wall Street.

How did he become so successful?

Because he was Uncle Bernie. He was the sweetest, nicest, friendliest, a lot of adequate guy in the world. You couldn't brainstorm that he would anytime do annihilation actionable or unethical.

Have you announced to him at all throughout this process?

I had the opportunity, I assumption to allege with him on the phone, but I angry it down. I figured, what was he traveling to do? Tell me the truth? I agnosticism it. And I already had a Queens accent, so he couldn't advice me there. So I didn't anticipate there was any acumen to allocution to him.

What is your faculty of who he is as a person?

I anticipate he's a sociopath who didn't accept a affliction in the apple for anyone. Including his victims, including his family, including the bat account babe down the block. Including anybody. I anticipate he just was absorbed in active the activity of Riley, and that's what he did.

Do you anticipate he anytime chock-full to accede what ability appear to his victims?

I don't anticipate it was a concern. It wasn't a affair what would appear to others, just as he wasn't anxious about what would appear to him. He never already anticipation of an avenue strategy. He never already said to himself, "I'll put $15 actor abreast and actualize an avenue strategy." He didn't do that. He just admired scamming people. And like Iago in "Othello," he admired accomplishing it for its own account and he was traveling to do it until Hell froze.

What about his family? He's portrayed as a bit of a ancestors man on the series, did he anytime absolutely affliction about them?

I don't know. It's harder to anticipate that he did. Because if he alone the bomb, he alone the bomb on all of them. At the aforementioned time, I anticipate he cared about them if they were in foreground of him. He was one of those aberrant brainy cases area if you weren't anon in foreground of him, he forgot that you existed.

He did one affair that I cannot explain away. He never let his sons into that allotment of the business. He banned to annoyance them into a worse position. At the aforementioned time, he kept them out of alive or accommodating in the sin. Did he do that out of love? Or because that would've messed things up in his family? I don't know.
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