Martin Scorsese Wishes He Worked With Ray Liotta Again After Goodfellas
Renowned American film director Martin Scorsese paid tribute to the late actor Ray Liotta in a heartfelt op-ed. Liotta, who starred in Scorsese's 1990 gangster film, Goodfellas, passed away last month at the age of 67.
Liotta passed away in his sleep in May while in the Dominican Republic, where he was one week into shooting his next film, Dangerous Waters.Liotta was perhaps best known for his role in Goodfellas, but despite the film's massive cultural impactScorsese and Liotta never worked together on a film again.
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According to Scorsese, this wasn't because of any feud or bad blood, and he regrets not having worked with the late actor again. In the op-ed for The Guardians, Scorsese writes, «We had many plans to work together again but the timing was always off, or the project wasn’t quite right. I regret that now. When I watched Ray as the divorce lawyer in Marriage Story – he’s genuinely scary in the role, which is precisely why he’s so funny – 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.» Scorsese also spends much of the op-ed complimenting the late actor, describing him as «fearless» and saying that he «never missed a beat.»
He writes how at the time, Goodfella's was a very difficult film for the director to get made. The film came at what Scorsese describes as a low point in his career, saying that many of the major Hollywood studios didn't want to work with him and that casting Liotta in the role of real-life gangster Henry Hill was instrumental in the film's success. «The part required a rare combination of qualities. He needed to
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