Martin Scorsese has opened up about his regret over never working with Ray Liotta again after Goodfellas.<\/p>\n
Liotta, who played Henry Hill in the 1990 crime classic, died last month at the age of 67.<\/p>\n
He never featured in any of Scorsese\u2019s subsequent films. Scorsese did try and cast him in the 2006 Oscar-winner The Departed, but a scheduling conflict meant Liotta had to turn down the role.<\/p>\n
In an essay for The Guardian, Scorsese paid tribute to Liotta, and expressed his remorse at never finding the right project to work with his one-time collaborator again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had many plans to work together again but the timing was always off, or the project wasn\u2019t quite right,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI regret that now. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I watched Ray as the divorce lawyer in Marriage Story \u2013 he\u2019s genuinely scary in the role, which is precisely why he\u2019s so funny \u2013 I remember feeling that I wanted to work with him again at this point in his life, to explore the gravity in his presence, so different from the young, sprightly actor he was when I met him.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI wish I\u2019d had the chance to see him just once more, too \u2013 to tell him just how much the work we did together meant to me. But maybe he knew that. I hope so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joe Pesci, Liotta and Robert De Niro in \u2018Goodfellas’<\/p>\n
(Warner Bros)<\/p>\n
In 2021, Liotta was asked about why he had never worked with Scorsese again, telling an interviewer that they would \u201chave to ask [Scorsese]\u201d. <\/p>\n
However, he stated that he would \u201clove to\u201d do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Martin Scorsese has opened up about his regret over never working with Ray Liotta again after Goodfellas. Liotta, who played Henry Hill in the 1990 crime classic, died last month at the age of 67. He never featured in any of Scorsese\u2019s subsequent films. Scorsese did try and cast him in the 2006 Oscar-winner The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n