by Amershire_Ed » Fri May 27, 2022 2:32 pm
PolackTony wrote: ↑Fri May 27, 2022 1:24 pm
axx wrote: ↑Fri May 27, 2022 1:14 pm
I've read somewhere that he was apparently of mostly Scottish descent.
Yeah, apparently he only found that out after tracking down his birth mother, IIRC.
Liotta went to the same HS as my dad (Union, NJ), though I don’t think they knew each other. Shame that he’ll never get to make another with Scorcese now. As Ivan said above, before too long all of these guys will be dead and nothing on their level will replace them in our popular culture. Just the 50ith + iteration of the same Marvel Universe storylines, etc.
He was really close to being in the Departed but for some reason he couldn’t get his schedule to work out. I think Scorsese originally wanted him for either the Alec Baldwin role or the Wahlberg role.
I love the Departed as is but the original casting that Scorsese had in mind was pretty crazy. DeNiro was gonna play Martin Sheen’s role. Brad Pitt was gonna play Matt Damon’s (before Pitt decided he was too old for the part and handpicked Damon to replace him), and Pacino was gonna play the Whitey Bulger role. Liotta was gonna have a part and apparently Scorsese even reached out to Mel Gibson about one of the roles. Wahlberg almost had to back out for scheduling reasons so they shot every scene involving him within the first 5 days of shooting so they wouldn’t have to recast again.
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I've read somewhere that he was apparently of mostly Scottish descent.
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Yeah, apparently he only found that out after tracking down his birth mother, IIRC.
Liotta went to the same HS as my dad (Union, NJ), though I don’t think they knew each other. Shame that he’ll never get to make another with Scorcese now. As Ivan said above, before too long all of these guys will be dead and nothing on their level will replace them in our popular culture. Just the 50ith + iteration of the same Marvel Universe storylines, etc.
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He was really close to being in the Departed but for some reason he couldn’t get his schedule to work out. I think Scorsese originally wanted him for either the Alec Baldwin role or the Wahlberg role.
I love the Departed as is but the original casting that Scorsese had in mind was pretty crazy. DeNiro was gonna play Martin Sheen’s role. Brad Pitt was gonna play Matt Damon’s (before Pitt decided he was too old for the part and handpicked Damon to replace him), and Pacino was gonna play the Whitey Bulger role. Liotta was gonna have a part and apparently Scorsese even reached out to Mel Gibson about one of the roles. Wahlberg almost had to back out for scheduling reasons so they shot every scene involving him within the first 5 days of shooting so they wouldn’t have to recast again.