You know The Wrestler, the movie about the steroid-taking wrestler who works in a profession where people take steroids a lot?

You’ll never guess what. Someone from The Wrestler has been arrested on suspicion of dealing steroids. Scott Siegel is currently being held without bail after a police chase ended with the arrest in New York yesterday.

Oddly enough, though, Scott Siegel actually played a steroid dealer in The Wrestler. This, we’re certain, is the most dead-on case of art imitating life we’ve seen since Kate Winslet starred in Revolutionary Road and then turned into a full-time annoyingly weepy turdbucket.

The reason why The Wrestler was so critically acclaimed on its release was because of how real it all felt. You could believe that Mickey Rourke was a knackered old hasbeen from the 1980s having one last roll of the dice because that’s exactly what he was at the time.

Needless to say, he wouldn’t be quite so believable if the movie was made now – unless The Wrestler was about a funny-looking dandy in a purple suit and a pair of ladies’ sunglasses who harboured a bizarre chihuahua fixation, but that’s beside the point.

The point is, the gritty realism in The Wrestler stretched beyond Mickey Rourke to some of the smaller parts as well. Like Scott Siegel, for instance. Siegel had a small part in The Wrestler as Greg, a local steroid dealer and – what do you know – he’s just been arrested for dealing steroids. BBC News reports:

Scott Siegel, 34, is being held without bail on drug dealing and assault charges after police seized 1,500 bottles thought to contain steroids. The bottles, and thousands of dollars in cash, were found in searches of his home and his parents’ home. He was arrested after a chase involving his car and several police vehicles. Siegel smashed through a fence and rammed three police cars and two Drug Enforcement Agency vehicles.

To be honest, we don’t know how Scott Seigel’s arrest will affect The Wrestler’s chances at the Oscars this weekend. On one hand the film is now more authentic than ever, but on the other hand the Academy won’t want to be seen associating with steroids.

Just look at Rambo, for example – after Sylvester Stallone got into trouble with Australian customs over all his Human Growth Hormone possession, the film didn’t get a sniff at the Oscars. And that’s definitely because of the steroid thing, and not just because Rambo was a glorified B-movie that couldn’t literally have been stupider had it been directed by a cauliflower in a shoebox. Probably.

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