Mark Wahlberg and Shane Black on touchdown that movie star for “Play Soiled ”cameo — solely to kill him

Warning: This text incorporates spoilers about Play Soiled.

"Jesus Christ, you shot Mark Cuban!"

Play Soiled didn't pull any punches by killing off its main movie star cameo midway via the film. Director Shane Black's comedic motion heist movie primarily based on Donald E. Westlake's Parker novels introduced within the Shark Tank star for one stunning and hilarious scene during which Mark Wahlberg's titular legendary thief kills the billionaire, in the course of a packed restaurant, with none regret.

Including insult to harm? When Cuban's dinner date shouts the above quote, Parker blandly replies, "By no means heard of him." Ouch.

Whereas Parker's irreverent perspective is offensive (and deadly!) to Cuban within the movie, Play Soiled's director and star couldn't be extra gracious to the real-life billionaire for agreeing to cameo as himself within the film, solely to die 10 seconds later.

"You wouldn't anticipate somebody like that to go, 'Oh yeah, positive,'" Black tells Leisure Weekly. "However he was like, 'I'm in.'"

Whereas the filmmaker didn't personally know Cuban earlier than this cameo took place, one other producer on the film "had a connection" to the shark, who was "receptive" to the concept of taking part in himself and dying onscreen.

"Someway he might not less than get via to Mark Cuban, and so he put us in contact and organized for that to occur," Black reveals. "It simply appeared like a very, actually good, enjoyable selection, as a result of everybody is aware of who Mark Cuban is. There was even a scene we minimize from the film for time the place there's a man speaking about, 'It's a disgrace about Mark. I liked his present.' And persons are speaking in regards to the truth he's simply lifeless and gone. So I assumed that was enjoyable."

Nonetheless, pulling off Cuban's look took some main film magic. Wahlberg tells EW that he by no means really filmed with the billionaire … in any respect.

"Mark Cuban wasn't there on the day," Wahlberg says. "We mainly shot the whole lot after which they shot his protection in a while down the highway."

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The actor laughs at how he did know Cuban personally, and so he doubted that they’d really get the billionaire to movie the deliberate cameo.

"I actually was like, 'Is Mark actually going to be prepared to do that?'" Wahlberg says. "After which after I noticed the film, I used to be like, 'Holy s—, they really obtained him to do it.' I assumed we'd be doing ADR and placing anyone else's identify in there."

The director later tells EW that "it was at all times going to be Mark Cuban" within the scene, regardless of the tough scheduling it took to get him to movie.

"We have been in Australia and Mark Cuban was within the U.S. so we shot half of the scene towards a inexperienced display screen with an empty chair after which a [body] double," Black says. "After which once we got here again right here, right here comes the chair and the desk and the inexperienced display screen, and right here comes Mark Cuban. So it's only a composite, but it surely works flawlessly."

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Wahlberg "can't wait" to lastly see Cuban in particular person to thank him for filming his cameo.

"He's such an ideal sport for doing that," the actor provides. "And he's additionally, oddly sufficient, written within the subsequent film that I'm about to start out taking pictures now." Wahlberg is fast to make clear, "Not the identical consequence for him, however sure, him taking part in himself once more. So I'm optimistic this time that he'll really be there once we do it collectively."

Play Soiled is now streaming on Prime Video.

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