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===Casting=== Stone met with [[Tom Cruise]] about playing Bud Fox, but Stone had already committed to Charlie Sheen for the role.<ref name="Riordan 1996"/> [[Matthew Modine]] turned down the role of Bud Fox.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/full-metal-jacket-star-matthew-modine-stranger-things.amp |title='Full Metal Jacket' star Matthew Modine explains why he turned down 'Top Gun,' 'Back to the Future' | Fox News |website=[[Fox News]]}}</ref> Stone liked the "stiffness" of Sheen's acting style and used it to convey Bud's naivete.<ref name="Kiselyak 2007">{{cite news |last=Kiselyak |first=Charles |title=Money Never Sleeps: The Making of ''Wall Street'' |work=Wall Street: 20th Anniversary Edition DVD |publisher=[[20th Century Fox]] |year=2007}}</ref> Michael Douglas had just come off heroic roles like the one in ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' and was looking for something dark and edgy.<ref name="Riordan 1996"/> The studio wanted [[Warren Beatty]] to play Gekko, but he was not interested. Stone initially wanted [[Richard Gere]] but Gere passed, so Stone went with Douglas despite having been advised by others in [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] not to cast him.<ref name="Riordan 1996"/> Stone remembers, "I was warned by everyone in Hollywood that Michael couldn't act, that he was a producer more than an actor and would spend all his time in his trailer on the phone". Nevertheless, Stone found out that "when he's acting he gives it his all".<ref name="McGuigan 1987">{{cite news |last=McGuigan |first=Cathleen |title=A Bull Market in Sin |work=[[Newsweek]] |date=December 14, 1987}}</ref> Stone said that he saw "that villain quality" in Douglas and always thought he was a smart businessman.<ref name="Lipper 1987"/> Douglas remembers that when he first read the screenplay, "I thought it was a great part. It was a long script, and there were some incredibly long and intense monologues to open with. I'd never seen a screenplay where there were two or three pages of single-spaced type for a monologue. I thought, whoa! I mean, it was unbelievable".<ref name="Riordan 1996"/> For research, he read profiles of corporate raiders [[T. Boone Pickens]] and Carl Icahn.<ref name="Riordan 1996"/> Stone gave Charlie Sheen the choice of [[Jack Lemmon]] or [[Martin Sheen]] to play his father in the film, and Sheen picked Martin Sheen, his own father. The elder Sheen related to the moral sense of his character.<ref name="Kiselyak 2007"/> Stone cast [[Daryl Hannah]] as Bud Fox's materialistic girlfriend Darien Taylor, but felt that she was never happy with the role and did not know why she accepted it. He tried to explain the character to Hannah repeatedly, and thought that the materialism of the character conflicted with Hannah's idealism.<ref name="Kiselyak 2007"/> Stone said later that he was aware early on that she was not right for the part. "Daryl Hannah was not happy doing the role and I should have let her go. All my crew wanted to get rid of her after one day of shooting. My pride was such that I kept saying I was going to make it work".<ref name="Riordan 1996"/> Stone also had difficulties with [[Sean Young]], who made her opinions known that Hannah should be fired and that she should play that role instead. Young would show up to the set late and unprepared. She did not get along with Charlie Sheen, which caused further friction on the set. In retrospect, Stone felt that Young was right and he should have swapped Hannah's role with hers.<ref name="Riordan 1996"/> Stone admits that he had "some problems" with Young, but was not willing to confirm or deny rumors that she walked off with all of her costumes when she completed filming.<ref name="Lipper 1987"/>
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