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Ray Liotta said he regretted turning down roles, was too ‘precious’ about career
who died Thursday of unknown causes at 67, told The Digital Fix in September.Since he was afraid to be type-cast as a mafioso following the overwhelming success of Martin Scorsese’s mobster movie “Goodfellas” in which he plays Henry Hill, he refused to play similar characters back-to-back.He even turned down the role of Ralphie, eventually played by Joe Pantoliano, in “The Sopranos.”“I didn’t want to do another mafia thing, and I was shooting ‘Hannibal.’ It just didn’t feel right at the time,” he said in an interview with the Guardian last year.Yet, a role in “The Sopranos” universe wasn’t off the table. In “The Many Saints of Newark,” the HBO prequel which aired in October, Liotta played Aldo “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti, the grandfather of Michael Imperioli’s Christopher.
