At least US$60 million diverted from 1MDB was used to help produce the 2013 movie, according to the prosecution.

As recently as last week, the government showed jurors the front and back covers of the “Wolf” DVD as well as a screen shot in which fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low – who prosecutors say was the mastermind of the 1MDB scheme – is thanked for helping make the film.

During a break and outside the jury’s presence on Monday, US district judge Margo Brodie read the alternate juror’s note to her out loud for the prosecutors and defence lawyers.

“Dear judge Brodie,” she read. “I feel the need to disclose that I worked as a background actor/extra for ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ in late 2012 into 2013.”

The alternate, whom Brodie did not identify, said he or she was hired and paid by an outside casting service and received US$1,000 for the gig.

“I had no interaction with any of the producers or anyone on the financial side of the film,” the alternate told the judge, adding that he or she would not mention it in deliberations.

The government alleges that Low siphoned billions of dollars from 1MDB, for which Goldman Sachs Group Inc arranged a trio of bond deals. Ng is accused of conspiring to violate US anti-bribery laws and launder money in the plundering of the fund.

“I do not believe this poses a problem,” Brodie said of the disclosure. None of the lawyers said anything, and the judge called a break.