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Ray Liotta, actor. Photo external source.
The American actor Ray Liotta, who died after his death. In Santo Domingo, he had his most important moment when, under the orders of the prestigious director Martin Scorsese, got involved. in the skin of the charming mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas“, a film in which he shared screen with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. talking about it 25 years later, it’s magnificent”, he said in 2016 on the Spanish program “Late Motiv”, which was driving the Catalan Andreu Buenafuente.
In that television space he explained of the way that be part of “Goodfellas”. It turns out that he was at the Venice Festival, where he was presenting a film, and Scorsese was also at that edition, with his film, “The Last Temptation of Christ”.
Being in the lobby of a hotel, in the aforementioned Italian city, Liotta reached to see the filmmaker, with whom he discussed they had met a couple of months before, and wanted to talk to him. Only that a couple of bodyguards stopped him and when Scorsese saw him struggling with them, in order to talk to him, he understood. He thought he could play the role of a tough guy, something he hadn’t done before. “That’s why I got that role”, he added. Liotta.
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Candidate for the Golden Globes, for his role in “Something Wild”; at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor on Television – Miniseries or Movie, for “The Rat Pack” (Rob Cohen, 1990); and Emmy winner for best guest actor in a dramatic series, for “ER”, in 2005.
His most important works for the big screen are, apart from the aforementioned “Goodfellas”, “Something Wild” (Jonathan Demme, 1986); “Unlawful Entry” (Jonathan Kaplan, 1992), “Cop Land” (James Mangold, 1997); and “Hannibal” (Ridley Scott, 2001) or “Identity” (James Mangold, 2003).
Born in Newark, New Jersey, on December 18, 1954 died this Thursday morning in Santo Domingo, a city in the who was shooting the movie “Dangerous Waters”, which is the second feature film directed by filmmaker John Barr.