Martin Scorsese Regrets Not Working With Ray Liotta After ‘Goodfellas’: ‘We Had Many Plans’ to Reunite

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Zack Sharf Martin Scorsese published a heartfelt tribute in The Guardian to the late actor Ray Liotta, whose most iconic role was Henry Hill in Scorsese’s gangster masterpiece “Goodfellas.” While Scorsese would go on to reunite with “Goodfellas” actors such as Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci after the release of his 1990 classic, he never got the chance to work with Liotta again.

Following Liotta’s sudden death last month, Scorsese expressed regret over never reuniting with the actor.“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,” Scorsese writes. “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.” “I wish I’d had the chance to see him just once more, too – to tell him just how much the work we did together meant to me,” Scorsese adds. “But maybe he knew that.

I hope so.”Earlier in his tribute, Scorsese writes about how fearless Liotta was on set. The actor received news shortly before filming one of the more emotional scenes in “Goodfellas” that his mother was dying of cancer.