Burn Gorman, Matthew Goode & Colin Hanks Interview: The Offer
The first three episodes of Paramount+'s The Offer have already aired, and audiences have begun discovering the behind-the-scenes story of making The Godfather. The series looks at the blood, sweat, tears and deals that went into making one of the greatest movies of all time — and it has a stellar cast to help the story behind the story get told.
Among the large ensemble cast portraying the minds that made The Godfather a reality, there is Matthew Goode as film producer Robert Evans, Burn Gorman as President of Paramount Pictures Charles Bluhdorn, and Colin Hanks as Buhdorn's right-hand man Barry Lapidus (who is also one of the few fictional characters portrayed in the series).
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The prolific actors spoke to Screen Rant about what excited them most about The Offer, what gangster-related trivia was most surprising to learn, and which was the offer in their career that they simply couldn't refuse.
Screen Rant: Congrats on the show. I love hearing these never-before-heard stories. What were you most surprised to learn was 100% true?
Colin Hanks: I'll be honest. There are so many, it's kind of hard to pick. A million miracles go into making anything, and so it was a surprise to sort of hear just how many there were with The Godfather.
I think, if there was one that I was most shocked by, it was just how much the mafia was involved in the making of it. I won't get into the details of how, but just the fact that they were involved in any way? I had no idea. That in and of itself, I think, is pretty astounding.
But to be honest, there are so many it is kind of hard to choose.
Matthew Goode: Just how ticked off Sinatra was. He went so far out of his way to really try
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