Why ‘Dumb Money’ Editor Cut a Second Anthony Ramos ‘Savage’ Dance Sequence From End Credits
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers for ‘Dumb Money‘ Director Craig Gillespie knew he wanted Anthony Ramos to dance in “Dumb Money” but he wasn’t quite sure how it would work.
He turned to screenwriters Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, who came up with a sequence where Ramos’ Marcus, a GameStop cashier, would do a TikTok dance to Megan Thee Stallion’s 2020 hit “Savage,” sung by Yodie Summers.
The film follows a group of amateur stock traders who take on the titans of Wall Street at the height of the pandemic in 2021.
Paul Dano plays Keith Gill, a.k.a Roaring Kitty, the family man who follows stock for a hobby and gains a huge following. Seth Rogen is the hedge fund manager Gabe Plotkin, who hears about the inexplicable sudden rise in GameStop shares and aims to get to the bottom of it.
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