Doing that movie and that character was a dream come true. She passed away in the middle of filming. “My mom lived in New Jersey,” he told The Times. Liotta also made that film in New York while his mother was dying of cancer, which shaped his memory of the role. Because I really believe it’s a game, but I believe that what makes someone stand out is they commit themselves deeper and fuller than maybe other actors do.” “I just couldn’t wait to work with people who wanted to play as deeply as I did.

And then the dream just falls into place,” he said. “It has nothing to do with you personally.

In a 1990 interview with The Times, Liotta called the audition process “horrible, horrible, horrible.” (Val Kilmer, Nicolas Cage, Alec Baldwin and Tom Cruise reportedly also were in consideration.) Famed producer Irwin Winkler pushed back because of the actor’s menacing performance in “Something Wild.” Ultimately, it was Liotta’s agreeable, warm and gracious demeanor in person that eventually won them over - and was exactly what Scorsese wanted for the role. Though he was Scorsese’s first choice for the part, Liotta also had a hard time locking it in. “People to this day still come and talk to me about ‘Goodfellas,’” Liotta told The Times in 2015. Liotta was tapped to narrate the Oscar-winning tale of Hill’s growth into the Italian American crime syndicate adapted from the nonfiction book “Wiseguy.” Liotta‘s best-known role remains mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 gangster film “Goodfellas” alongside Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Then, in an appearance on “ The Rich Eisen Show” in 2021, he said that he tried to watch it with his ailing mother but “she couldn’t really enjoy herself so we left, and I just equate it with that.” “My mom was really sick during that period, so it brings back other things,” Liotta told the Huffington Post. If you happen to run into Ray Liotta while you’re out and about, there’s no need to worry. Television Ray Liotta hops a horse to join ‘Texas Rising’

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