On HBO’s Ballers, good egg Steve Guttenberg breaks bad— and puts Dwayne Johnson between a rock and a hard place
HE’S SPENT DECADES as the poster boy for goodness, decency and sunny optimism. But now Steve Guttenberg—at age 58—is reveling in the chance to be a world-class ass. The actor, best known for the hit films Three Men and a Baby, Cocoon and the Police Academy franchise, has joined HBO’s Ballers as Wayne Hastings Jr., a spectacularly rich and ruthless Las Vegas casino magnate who believes he’s God’s gift to the universe. Hastings has it all, and then some. Or so he thinks. But then he meets former NFL sensation Spencer Strasmore (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson)—now a money manager for sports stars—who is dangling quite the tantalizing carrot: Spencer wants to join forces with Hastings to build an epic stadium in Sin City and relocate a top NFL team there. Will Hastings bite…or will he squash the gargantuan Spencer like a bug, steal the ball and score his own touchdown? Guttenberg gave us the blow-by-blow.
You tear into this role like a starving man invited to a banquet!
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