In line with the DVD further function “Cash By no means Sleeps: The Making of Wall Avenue” (vial Psychological Floss), Charlie Sheen (who had labored with Stone beforehand on “Platoon”) mentioned, “It was attention-grabbing having my dad play my dad.” He mentioned that when Stone gave him the choices of Lemmon and Stone the elder, he replied, “Oh, Jack Lemmon’s a genius, however my dad’s my dad, and he is form of a genius, too.” (In line with a 2012 Vainness Honest article, “Wall Avenue” was a tribute to Stone’s personal father, who was a stockbroker through the Nice Melancholy.) 

In a 2022 Function Recall video from Yahoo!, Martin Sheen commented on getting forged in “Wall Avenue” due to his son. He mentioned: 

“Charlie put the bug in [Stone’s] ear — would not or not it’s a good suggestion if my outdated man truly performed my outdated man within the film, and Oliver thought that that may work. He knew … what I did for a residing … I assume he figured he did not must go that far. However yeah, that was an exquisite expertise. I’ve at all times been grateful to Oliver Stone for placing Charlie and I collectively like that as a result of it was a really, very, very particular time to work with Charlie.”

Not solely did they act collectively on “Wall Avenue,” however they made a joke about it within the 1993 comedy “Scorching Photographs! Half Deux.” As their characters move one another in boats, they yell, “I liked you in ‘Wall Avenue.”