Do stockbrokers have friends? If they do, they would be much like Marv, the character played by "Chicago P.D." villain John C. McGinley. The sometimes friend, sometimes foe is the perfect parallel to the 1987 Oliver Stone film that put the corrupt nature of the financial institutions on display, "Wall Street."
"Wall Street" follows Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) as he assists Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) with insider trading until his conscience gets the better of him. Marv sits next to him on the trading floor and is put off that Fox would keep him out of his extensive financial gains until the end when Fox makes it up to him. He brought a lightness and sarcasm (something McGinley does well throughout his career) to a movie wrought with scenes destroying all hope for the goodness of humanity.
When retelling for the Chicago Tribune the moment he first spoke to Oliver Stone, he said, "Oliver Stone calls up and says, 'Do you want to do 'Wall Street'?' And I'm like, 'Yeah, I'd love to! But I'm doing a play, so you guys have to wrap me each night in time. I have to make a 'half-hour' (30 minutes before curtain) because I like to do a vocal warm-up and other stuff." While impersonating Stone, he went on to explain that the director excitedly went out of his way to make sure he made his half-hour. "And then he hangs up on me, and I'm like, 'Great, so he's out of his mind," McGinley concluded.
