It wasn't easy to pull Joe Pesci out of retirement. 'He didn't want to rehearse,' Scorsese says.
Prepare yourself for Martin Scorsese's epic new production,"The Irishman." There's already big Oscar buzz swirling around the nearly four hour film and its all-star cast.
"There was concern when I did 'Irishman' for Netflix as possibly altering or affecting in a negative way the theatrical experience," Scorsese said. "He came up here and we were talking about this book and described this character to me of Frank Sheeran," he said."I hadn't read the book yet. And he became quite emotional describing it."
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