Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activision Blizzard, will play the owner of the Oakland Athletics in the upcoming film Moneyball. The reason is because Kotick is a friend of director Bennett Miller and he wanted a favor.
“We were having dinner and Bennett was talking about Moneyball and he asked me a little bit about an owner’s psychology and what an owner would be like. I started reading the script and I said, I really think the words don’t capture how an owner would react to this part of the conversation. I also loved Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball. We were having this back and forth and Bennett said ‘why don t you do it? It would make the role very authentic.’ And I said, ‘I will, but only if you made my Call of Duty endowment movie.'”
Miller has already made the short film for the Call of Duty charity, which will air at a later date. As for acting, Kotick says, “I don t get a credit and you ll never see me acting again.”
Source: Reuters