Zach Galifianakis is taking on the role of Beanie Baby creator Ty Warner in the upcoming film “The Beanie Bubble”, but in real life, the actor thinks billionaires are pretty “bizarre.” Galifianakis chatted to ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante about the flick, which follows Warner as “a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women grew his idea into the biggest toy craze in history.” Talking about people that “obsess over and idolize these eccentric billionaires,” Galifianakis said, “I think we’ve always been obsessed with the wealthy and how they got there.
But a lot of these people that get real successful and are very wealthy, they’re real weird. They’re very bizarre people. “I mean, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the Jeff Bezos interview.
That guy’s interpersonal skills are bizarre. “So it’s interesting that we always, I mean, Time Warner was very flashy. He was a salesman.
I mean, he was a carnival barker. I think a lot of those type of people are carnival barkers. They have this drive to be seen and to make a lot, a lot of money.
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