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Joe Exotic Reveals Which Two Celebrities He Wants to Play Him in a Movie!

Joe Exotic Reveals Which Two Celebrities He Wants to Play Him in a Movie!

Joe Exotic has made his picks!

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, the 57-year-old incarcerated zookeeper of the hit Netflix Tiger King series, has some talent in mind to portray him in a potential big screen adaptation of his life story, filmmakers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin confirmed in an interview with THR on Wednesday (April 1).

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“He would like Brad Pitt or David Spade to play him,” Rebecca said, adding: “He doesn’t refer to David Spade as David Spade — he refers to him as ‘Joe Dirt.’”

He has not yet seen the series, but he is aware of the acclaim.

“He’s in jail, so he can’t necessarily watch it, but once the show dropped he was getting hundreds and hundreds of emails to his jail mail, and he was ecstatic,” his husband Dillon Passage revealed to Andy Cohen.

Here’s what Joe Exotic is currently doing in jail.

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