The director was confident that the actor "could play the man behind that veneer, the man who also lost his soul," and when he gave him the script, he told him to think of Dean Martin while in the role.
Redatelj je bio uvjeren da će glumac "moći odglumiti lika iza furnira, čovjeka koji je također izgubio vlastitu dušu", a kad mu je dao scenarij rekao mu je da razmišlja o Deanu Martinu dok je bio u liku.