Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
From the start, "The Wolf of Wall Street" is a non stop show of drugs, money, debauchery and sleazy people, like Leonardo DiCaprio's character Jordan Belfort.
Based on a true story, the film chronicles Belfort's rise from a low level stock broker to the head of a penny stock brokerage firm in Long Island, one that scams a lot of people out of a lot of money.
It's a story that held a lot of appeal for DiCaprio, Martin Scorcese who directed the film, and screenwriter Terence Winter.
Winter is no stranger to Hollywood. He's won awards for his work on the hit series "Boardwalk Empire" and "The Sopranos," but it's "The Wolf of Wall Street" that got him his first Oscar nomination for "Best Adapted Screenplay."
Mr. Winter joins the show to talk about penning this Oscar-nominated hit.