The man, whom she calls Reardon Green in the book, hired her on the spot for a job at his restaurant. She had just quit a job as a waitress, and he noticed her uniform. She did start her career as a waitress and assistant.īloom met her future boss, played in the movie by Jeremy Strong, when he almost hit her with his car in Los Angeles. But it’s not hard to imagine Sorkin adding that dramatic flourish. Since Bloom wrote her book before she was sentenced for her role in the gambling ring, she doesn’t address whether her father really showed up in New York City to give her a pep talk about her trial, as he does in the film. “Everything was a lesson in pushing past the limits and being the best we could possibly be.” “Nothing was ‘recreational’ in our family,” she writes. But he definitely pushed his children to their limits. In her book, Bloom speaks very lovingly of her father (played in the movie by Kevin Costner).
