00:00Greed is good what Michael Douglas did for greed on Wall Street, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Judd Nelson did for greed in Los Angeles in the 1980s, a lot of excess, a lot of exuberance at the height of his Brat Pack fame.
00:19Nelson played Joe Hunt in the hit TV miniseries, Billionaire Boys Club, based on the true story of an L.A. kid who scammed his way to a lavish life.
00:30He definitely wants to succeed and he wants it to be shiny. He wants all the glitz and glamour of someone who makes a million dollars a year.
00:37It was an era of 80s excess, cocaine, cars, and the rise of the yuppie in search of it all.
00:44I think L.A. in the 80s was all about image and the illusion of power.
00:50So what Joe Hunt did is he capitalized on that access.
00:55He was not only running a scam, he was selling a dream.
01:00It all descended into another staple of a wild Hollywood story, murder, as chronicled in the new CNN docuseries, Billionaire Boys Club.
01:10It was American Psycho meets Wall Street or Gordon Gekko, and the media just went after it.
01:17Before the Menendez brothers, before O.J., the Billionaire Boys Club helped start the era of the celebrity trial.
01:25It played out in the backdrop of Hollywood, covered by Hollywood.
01:29It read like a Hollywood movie. Still does. And that's why there's so much fascination decades later.
01:35It's a story Nelson has lived now for decades.
01:38Only in this kind of a profession can you play the guy and then 20 years later play the guy's dad.
01:46In 2018, Nelson returned to play Hunt's father in a big screen version of the Billionaire Boys Club.
01:53He says the new docuseries brings a timeless lesson to a new generation.
01:58Hiding in plain sight are many things that are dangerous to us.
02:03So we are vulnerable to people that say good things to us, that compliment us, that like us, or pretend to like us.
02:10It's a cautionary tale.
02:11So we are vulnerable to people that are not going to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to be able to
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