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Frank went to a bank in Texas and told them all about his adventurous past and offered his services to them- in solving check frauds. His condition was that they good mouth him to other banks if they found his services helpful. And they sure did. His reputation spread like fire and he shot to fame after appearing on The Tonight Show.
Infamous to Famous
Frank’s story is known to the entire world now. Made into a movie by one of the world’s most renowned director and played by one of the most versatile actor but how did that come to pass? Abagnale tells, ” I actually was on Jhonny Carson show 9 times back in the late 1970s and after the first night I was one he got hundreds of calls about how do I buy this book about this guy and there was no book.”
People Wanted To Know About Him 
Frank Abagnale wrote the book Catch Me If You Can on which Speilberg eventually based his film. He continued, “So Jhonny Carson contacted me and said “you need to write a book about your life” and I said no, I am just in my late twenties and he said “no, now is the time to write it” and so we wrote Catch me if you can. And Spielberg chanced on it.
The Movie
The rights of his book were sold in 1980 but it wasn’t until two decades later that Spielberg found the perfect cast for it. Why did Frank choose Spielberg? Because according to him, “Steven Speilberg knew this (the story), he knew how this all started and so the night that they finished filming the movie and it was completely edited, he made a disc and the first person ever to have actually seen the entire film beside Speilberg himself was Jhonny Carson. He sent it to his home and wrote on the disc “This would not have been possible without you.
Played A Cameo
The real Frank Abagnale also played a short cameo in the Leonardo Di Caprio starrer Catch me if you can. About his experience, he said, “I really didn’t want to, but they insisted I do so.” He continued, “They cut all my hair off, and they put me in a cap and a big coat and put me in a night scene playing a French policeman who goes up to arrest Leo in one of the final scenes of the movie.” Can you catch him in this frame? He is the one he has his hands on Caprio, in this shot.
Caprio’s Thoughts
Caprio and Frank had a lot of meets while the movie was being filmed. Caprio wanted to understand Frank’s character more properly to bring a method to his acting. But this is what he thought of Frank, “To look at him, you wouldn’t think he could steal a postage stamp. But he has an almost unconscious way of engaging you with his eyes, with his energy and with his intelligence.”