For most people, it was an easy ask. After all, Martin Scorsese is a living legend, a director who has produced masterpiece after masterpiece in a career that has spanned decades. So collaborators like Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Leonardo DiCaprio and admirers like Spike Lee and Steven Spielberg were eager to be on camera talking about the cinematic genius for “Mr. Scorsese,” a five-part docuseries that recently debuted on Apple TV.
However, one interview eluded Rebecca Miller, the film’s director.
“The only person who said ‘no’ was Joe Pesci,” Miller says. “He really didn’t want to be interviewed for this.”
It’s surprising given that Pesci won an Oscar playing a homicidal gangster in Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” and delivered similar hair-trigger turns in the director’s “Raging Bull,” “Casino” and “The Irishman.” But in the series, Scorsese reveals that Pesci was able to convincingly portray hardened killers…
‘ The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties ’
‘ Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com ’
ADVERTISEMENT
