THE IRISHMAN, A Martin Scorsese Picture with de Niro, Pacino, Pesci, Keitel

to be fair robert deniro is generally cast as italian american characters

Aside from young Vito Corleone and Jake LaMotta, his most well-known roles are almost certainly named Travis Bickle and Jack Byrnes. Other well-known roles include noted Italians Rupert Pupkin, Jimmy Doyle, Michael Vronsky, 'Noodles' Aaronson, Harry Tuttle, Jack Walsh, Jimmy Conway, Max Cady, Ace Rothstein, Neil McCauley . . . gtf with "generally," I'd say fewer than 10% of his roles are recognizable or inferably "Italian."

― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, August 8, 2017 10:05 AM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's at least 20 films he's appeared in where he plays a character with an italian name. he has made a ton of films mind you, so this probably only accounts for a 1/5 or so of them.

Frank Sheeran was born in Darby, Pennsylvania. Not the accent you expect. xp

Frank Sheeran was born in Darby, Pennsylvania,[2] a small working-class borough on the outskirts of Philadelphia. His family was of Irish and Swedish descent. He grew to his full adult height of 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) while serving in the Army during World War II.

Pesci should have played him.

Frank Sheeran was born in Darby, Pennsylvania. Not the accent you expect. xp

Ok now I have one foot in and one foot out

I thought silence was really good. Does anyone rep for deniro anymore?

He grew to his full adult height of 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) while serving in the Army during World War II

hoping this scene makes it into the film tbh

The American.

XP lol

finally, the scorsese/romano team-up we've been clamouring for all these years

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Everybody Loves Gimme Shelter

yeah the presence of RR is a misgiving

I thought silence was really good. Does anyone rep for deniro anymore?

all joking aside, he was really good in dirty grandpa

I never watched Everybody Loves Raymond and really have zero interest in him but found him surprisingly decent in Vinyl (which was otherwise awful) and the Big Sick

I thought silence was really good. Does anyone rep for deniro anymore?
all joking aside, he was really good in dirty grandpa

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also irish-american. establishing his bonafides as the actor for irish-american roles in hollywood

look i cannae deny the man's a chameleon but

tbf i'd probably i'd have a problem if it was called irish grandpa

more still if it was dirty irish

"My Big Fat Irish Grandpa". Sequel?

He could amaze us all by doing the Jake La Motta putting weight on thing again.

Grand fellas

I liked Romano in "Vinyl" but Cannavale has no range and is hammy af

Range... Pesci?

all joking aside, he was really good in dirty grandpa

Also delivered in The Intern.

I liked Romano in "Vinyl" but Cannavale has no range and is hammy af

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some bold opinions here

I agree Cannavale is pretty one-note. also he was *terrible* in VINYL. acceptable as loathsome villain in Boardwalk Empire I suppose.

He was ok in BW but, again, he just had to play an ott psychopath mobster without nuance and he did the job.

Who is he playing in this, Peig Sayers?

emmy award winning, tony nominated actor bobby cannavale is good imo

he's no ray romano obv

I like him

I dunno if that counters the criticism of him or anythinh

he makes a mean tuna casserole

I think there's about a 60% chance this could be very good and a 20% chance it could be great and a 5% chance it could be better than Goodfellas

#pesci

it's their last hurrah isn't it

de Niro said a couple years ago he was gonna make another w/ Marty "before we die"

the Joe Gallo role seems suited to Cannavale though i get Luca Brasi vibes from the real Gallo.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Joseph_„Joey“_Gallo.jpg

on location in Paterson

http://gothamist.com/2017/09/17/jim_jarmusch_is_why_martin_scorsese.php

Nice.

Behind the scenes Al Pacino, Bobby DeNiro & Martin Scorsese. First time these 3 heavy hitters are workin together. The Irishman drops in ‘19 pic.twitter.com/rMy7FFW2lA

— 🇸🇻MojadoULove2Hate (@GoldenSt8OfMind) October 12, 2017

Can't wait! Anyone read the book?

Has Scorsese directed Pacino before at all?

no

I thought that was Alec Baldwin in the picture at first.

Al may be wearing more prosthetics than he did in Dick Tracy

Just that now it's his hips

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/500/0*O1cRw-28sMl60aQd.jpg

“Jimmy and Russell were very much alike. They were solid muscle from head to toe. They were both short, even for those days. Russ was about 5'8". Jimmy was down around 5'5". In those days I used to be 6'4", and I had to bend down to them for private talks. They were very smart from head to toe. They had mental toughness and physical toughness. But in one important way they were different. Russ was very low-key and quiet, soft-spoken even when he got mad. Jimmy exploded every day just to keep his temper in shape, and he loved publicity.”

Having Pacino play the loud one and Pesci the quiet one just don't make no sense

Pesci should have played the loud one and Pacino should have also played the loud one

Pacino has been not-loud maybe 3x in 25 years

Pesci may have lost his volume w/ age

His preferred mode of elocution now is a soft croon

a wrap

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