Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese remembered his pal and “Goodfellas” star Ray Liotta following his untimely death.
Liotta passed away in his sleep due to unidentified results in Wednesday evening while filming a movie in the Dominican Republic. He was 67.
The “Gangs of New York” filmmaker, 79, shared a touching assertion with People on Thursday, noting: “I’m totally shocked and devastated by the unexpected, unforeseen loss of life of Ray Liotta. He was so uniquely gifted, so adventurous, so brave as an actor.”
“Playing Henry Hill in ‘Goodfellas’ was a tall order, for the reason that the character had so quite a few unique aspects, so numerous complicated layers, and Ray was in pretty much each scene of a long, tough shoot,” he ongoing. “He completely stunned me, and I’ll often be very pleased of the perform we did collectively on that photograph. My coronary heart goes out to his liked kinds, and it aches for his decline, way also early.”
The “Corina, Corina” actor’s “Goodfellas” costar Robert De Niro told The Post Thursday about his death: “I was very saddened to study of Ray’s passing. He is way as well young to have remaining us. May well he Rest in Peace.”
His other “Goodfellas” costar and “Sopranos” alum Lorraine Bracco also penned a shifting tribute to her good friend on Twitter Thursday.
“I am completely shattered to listen to this terrible information about my Ray,” she wrote. “I can be any place in the world & individuals will occur up & convey to me their favorite motion picture is Goodfellas. Then they generally request what was the best component of building that movie. My reaction has constantly been the same…Ray Liotta.”
Liotta was survived by his fiancée, Jacy Nittolo, 46, and his daughter Karsen, 23.
Whilst the New Jersey native was regarded for playing a mobster in Scorsese’s 1990 drama and the 2021 “Sopranos” prequel “The A lot of Saints of Newark,” the “Shades of Blue” star was worried to be typecast as a mafioso soon after “Goodfellas” premiered.
He also turned down the role of Ralphie, performed by Joe Pantoliano, in the 1999 HBO criminal offense series.
He spelled out in an interview with the Guardian last September that he was approached by the “Sopranos” creator David Chase to participate in a different character.
“No! I really do not know exactly where that tale arrived from,” Liotta said about the concept he was presented the position of Tony Soprano. “David the moment talked to me about actively playing Ralphie. But hardly ever Tony.”
“I did not want to do one more mafia thing, and I was capturing ‘Hannibal.’ It just did not sense right at the time,” he reported.
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