Kevin O’Leary doesn’t just play the villain on Shark Tank, he relishes it.“Mr. Wonderful” has turned greed into performance art, outrage into a business model, and capitalism into cosplay. That same brazen, love-him-or-hate-him energy made him a cable news darling and landed him a role as a 1950s tycoon opposite Timothée Chalamet in Josh Safdie’s ping-pong psychodrama Marty Supreme. We tested his unfiltered mouth on hair transplants, nepotism, and a politician or two.
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PROTEIN
“What I found out is if you want to feel better and have a lot more energy, you have to get up to at least 128 grams of protein a day, and you can do it now with AI apps like Lose It!. You just photo-graph the food and it tells you what you’re getting. Anything less than 60 I don’t put in my mouth. It takes about 10 weeks to feel the effects, but it really works.”
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NON-ALCOHOLIC
“I totally get it, but for a reason a lot of people don’t understand. If you drink three hours before you sleep, you wipe out your REM. The more you realize how much it damages your sleep, the less you want to drink. I reduced all alcohol with the exception of very high-end tequila that I press myself. It’s very expensive to do that. I drink that, and I drink wine. I try to drink less wine as it gets closer to bedtime, but I’m not that successful all the time, so I may start drinking it with breakfast.”
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TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET
“Josh [Safdie] got us together for a reading at the film’s offices early, and I started to get into the cadence with him. By the time we shot the first scene, we were already in the groove. He’s got a really interesting energy to him. After we shot in Tokyo, I said to anybody who would listen, this kid is going to win an Oscar for his performance.”
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JUSTIN TRUDEAU
“If I were Katy Perry, I would get a prenup right now because he’ll bankrupt her in six weeks. That guy is known as the Idiot King. He destroyed a country like never before. He has no executional skills whatsoever, no understanding of policy, had no idea how to run a country, brought the Canadian people to their knees in debt, and now he’s going to do the same thing to her.”
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FREE FOOD
“Free grocery stores are an incredibly stupid idea because, if you think about any community, they’ve got bodegas, they’ve got mid-size, they’ve got large-sized grocery stores. All of them are private. They have to make profits so they can pay their employees. It’s a thin-margin business, even if you’re a behemoth. All of a sudden you get the government involved in providing free logistics, free everything, and you put everybody else out of business? I wonder what moron thought of that?”
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JD VANCE
“I know JD. I know his staff. I think anybody that is as close to the sun as he is has done a masterful job at staying out of trouble.
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HAIR TRANSPLANTS
“I tried them once. I think the technology’s gotten much better since then. But for me, the Dome of Desire is the brand now. It’s a beautiful thing to look at. It’s not a bug; it’s a feature.”
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LONGEVITY
“I’m on a very basic metric for longevity. I try to get great sleep—seven hours and 20 minutes, exactly. I don’t eat shit food anymore. I try to drink less. I don’t take drugs. I don’t smoke. I exercise every single day. I ride my bike in Miami for an hour and 20 minutes every day in the morning when the sun is rising, along with all the dog walkers and the other 1000 guys on bikes. I know lots of people in their eighties and nineties who are still working and enjoying their lives. My dad is 94 and he hears better than I do.”
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NEPOTISM
“I don’t believe in nepotism because I’ve seen too many businesses fail. You put in the idiot son, daughter, cousin, uncle, when you should have hired a professional manager. Never ever bring in idiot management.”
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HAIR TRANSPLANTS
“I tried them once. I think the technology’s gottenmuch better since then. But for me, the Dome ofDesire is the brand now. It’s a beautiful thing tolook at. It’s not a bug; it’s a feature.”
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GAVIN NEWSOM
“I like him personally, but he should find a job he’s good at. You can just look at the numbers—the amount of businesses leaving California, the lack of safety on the streets of San Francisco, no management after the fires. If he worked for me, I would’ve whacked him a long time ago, so I think the people in California should whack him, and I mean that in the most respectful way.
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PRIVATE JETS
“Everybody thinks they’re such a luxury, but I spend 300 hours a year on private jets when I’d much rather not fly anywhere. It would be a luxury just not to get on a plane.”
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2028
“I can’t forecast the markets more than six months from now, but I’m optimistic for America. I invest in it. I’m an ambassador to the American Dream through all the stuff I do on Shark Tank, and, in a way, Marty Supreme is about the essence of the American Dream.”
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ACTING
“I’ve always said that if you want to stay sharp and keep your life interesting, you should spend 30 percent of your day outside your comfort zone, and accepting a role in a scripted film was definitely outside of mine. I’m not used to being told what to do. I remember one night at four o’clock in the morning, I’d shot the same scene with Timmy 40 times. I finally said to Josh, ‘That last take, we got it. I think we can break this set down.’ And he said, ‘You don’t have it until I say you have it. Now fuck off and do it again.’”
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MERGERS
“The media industry has changed dramatically with the onslaught of streaming, and all the as-sets have to realign accordingly. Linear television is going through its slow decline, cable has its issues, and TikTok’s one day going to be America’s largest network. All this stuff is in flux, so you have to have mergers, and the regulators should be a lot more open to it because there’s a lot of money being lost in media right now.”
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TAXES
“That’s why some states are successful and some aren’t. Look at what’s happening in New York. People are leaving. Where are they going? Florida. Lower taxes get you higher business.”
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MSNBC
“I’ve been doing television for a long time, and there are not many people that enjoy total freedom to contribute to every single network—rightwing, left wing, middle of the road, whatever. And the reason I feel I’ve been given that passport is I don’t shill for politicians; I shill for policy. If you stay the messenger, you don’t get shot. I don’t hate anybody and I don’t hate politicians. I just hate stupid policy. And the Idiot King.”
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Grooming: Nate Palacios using Dior Beauty at P1M Agency.
