“A courageous and wonderful human being and doesn’t deserve to have been treated that way by this pig. “My daughter is a wonderful person,” he said at the time. He claimed at the time he only learned about the sexual harassment and assault and blacklisting allegations against the “Shakespeare in Love” filmmaker when the public did, stating, “If I had known it, he would not be walking. That son of a bitch, good for him if he goes, because if not, then he has to meet me, and I’ll kill that motherf–ker.” “Because if we come across, I think he’ll be lying on the floor somehow, magically. “If I meet him on the street, he oughta hope that he goes to jail,” Sorvino told TMZ in 2018. Sorvino was also a staunch opponent of disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, who was accused of blacklisting Mira after she refused his alleged sexual advances. He also directed and starred in a film written by his daughter Amanda and featuring his son, Michael. He had three children from his first marriage to Lorraine Davis, including Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino. “I suppose that’s the price you pay for being effective in a role.” Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino in “Goodfellas.” Warner Bros Paul Sorvino and daughter Mira Sorvino during “The Cooler” premiere at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California. “There are many people who think I’m actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of ‘Goodfellas,’” he once said, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Of his career-making role in “Goodfellas,” Sorvino once recalled how he felt typecast. “Self-sacrifice, risking their lives for what they believed in - they are true citizens of Planet Earth,” he said.įor the movie’s 30th anniversary in 2020, Christopher Serrone, who played young Henry Hill at the beginning of “Goodfellas,” told The Post that Sorvino would sing opera between takes. He told The Post in 2002 that Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu and Muhammad Ali were his heroes. Warner Bros Paul Sorvino attends the Thalians: Hollywood for Mental Health Presidents Club Party at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Feb. Paul Sorvino in a still for “Goodfellas” in 1990. He made his Broadway debut in 1964 in “Bajour” and booked his first movie, “Where’s Poppa?,” in 1970. He played an Italian American Communist in Warren Beatty’s “Reds,” mob boss Eddie Valentine in Joe Johnston’s “The Rocketeer,” Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” and Fulgencio Capulet in Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet.”īorn in Brooklyn in 1939, Sorvino attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, where he fell in love with theater. Phil Cerreta on Seasons 2 and 3 of “Law & Order.” With more than 100 acting credits to his name, Sorvino had a knack for playing gangsters and cops, notably in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 hit “Goodfellas” and NYPD Sgt. I’m sending you love in the stars Dad as you ascend.” “My heart is rent asunder- a life of love and joy and wisdom with him is over.
“My father the great Paul Sorvino has passed,” 54-year-old Mira tweeted Monday. “Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage,” she said in a statement received by The Post. His wife, Dee Dee, was by his side in Indiana Monday morning when he passed away from natural causes. Real ‘Goodfella’ on Ray Liotta: ‘Thanks for not making me look like a scumbag’Īctor Paul Sorvino, best known for his starring role as Paul Cicero in “Goodfellas” and the father of Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino, has died. Martin Scorsese: Late ‘Goodfellas’ star Ray Liotta was ‘so uniquely gifted’ Martin Scorsese: I regret not working with Ray Liotta again before he died
Remembering mob movie legend Paul Sorvino
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