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Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme

There's this ideathat Hollywood is a place of immense wealthand people are beautiful and...

There's this idea
that Hollywood is a place of immense wealth
and people are beautiful and it's a glamorous
environment

Full Transcript

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There's this idea that Hollywood is a place
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of immense wealth and people are beautiful
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and it's a glamorous environment.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
39
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:03
Uploaded
Apr 03, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
XTR,NEON

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Movie Summary

Zachary Horwitz's desperate attempt to become a movie star led him down a path of deception and fraud, seduced by the allure of fame and wealth.
And I think that can have an allure to it - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:08
And I think that can have an allure to it
And when they can't do it legitimately, - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:08
And when they can't do it legitimately,
It's not usually as hard as it was in this case - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:09
It's not usually as hard as it was in this case
There's kind of a mad scientist quality - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:07
There's kind of a mad scientist quality
So I just set out right away - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:08
So I just set out right away
He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:05
He grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
In terms of who he was as a kid and what he was like, - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:08
In terms of who he was as a kid and what he was like,
Generations of Fort Wayne youth - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:06
Generations of Fort Wayne youth
He moved to town when he was in his early teens. - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:05
He moved to town when he was in his early teens.
What are the odds that you'll go to school with somebody - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:13
What are the odds that you'll go to school with somebod...
So what was your reaction - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:06
So what was your reaction
Like, I did plays all four years of high school. - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:05
Like, I did plays all four years of high school.
And Zach and I never crossed paths once. - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:06
And Zach and I never crossed paths once.
When I read all the coverage about what he did, - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:08
When I read all the coverage about what he did,
And classmates and I were all there for his origin story. - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:05
And classmates and I were all there for his origin story.
So it seems like what you're telling me - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:06
So it seems like what you're telling me
All you have to do is, like, crack open a yearbook - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:06
All you have to do is, like, crack open a yearbook
Interestingly, Zach actually had - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:05
Interestingly, Zach actually had
Basically, it was... before even the first season, - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:05
Basically, it was... before even the first season,
Yeah, I got my knee folded back - Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme 00:06
Yeah, I got my knee folded back