Martin Scorsese has said that his mother Catherine’s cameo in Goodfellas was almost entirely improvised.At the 2021 virtual TCM Film Festival, Scorsese spoke about the scene from the iconic 1990 mafia film in which his mother featured.
Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta also appeared in the scene, with Pesci playing Scorsese’s son.“When people talk about improvisation, this really was improvisation,” said the 78-year-old Scorsese at the festival, as Entertainment Weekly reports. “Once we started shooting, she picked up on something and started speaking.
Joe answered her, Bob [De Niro] did what he did, Ray [Liotta] did what he did, I had two cameras, we’re in a small house in Queens, and I think the only written line was about a.
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