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Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco

Donnie Brasco Goes To Hollywood

Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco

Jam Street Media

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, True Crime

4.8566 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this Season 1 finale of Deep Cover, Leo Rossi and Joe Pistone reminisce on tales of Hollywood related to the production of the movie, Donnie Brasco, and more. They’ve known each other for years and have many stories to share to prove it. Joe may have been deep undercover with the mafia, but according to him, Hollywood executives are the ones not to be trusted. Coming soon, Deep Cover Season 2, will continue where Joe left off, sharing more stories of his time deep undercover in not just America, but overseas as well. Follow us on social media Facebook Instagram Twitter Watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKeT_Ic27g59iGfh23QoP0xG-6aLodMWg A Jam Street Media Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We all love mob movies, Scarface, The Godfather, the List goes on and on.

0:12.3

But there's one movie that speaks to me more than all the others, Johnny Brasco.

0:17.4

It starred Johnny Depp as an FBI agent who went deep undercover in the New York Mafia.

0:22.5

And unlike Scarface or The Godfather, it's actually based on a true story.

0:26.6

And you know what they say?

0:27.7

Truth is stranger than fiction.

0:29.5

I'm Leo Rossi.

0:30.6

I've spent my life behind and in front of the camera creating stories about the mob.

0:36.0

We're going to go off the page and talk to the real life Donnie Brasco.

0:42.8

This is the season one finale of Deep Cover, The Real Donnie Brasco with Joe Pustone and

0:49.2

Leo Rossi.

0:50.5

Stick around till the end to hear the trailer for season two.

0:56.5

Okay, location scouting, one thing, we may have touched on this before, but you went back

1:04.8

to the old neighborhood Greenpoint where the motion lounge was, correct?

1:09.2

Yes, we did.

1:10.5

And on the people on the street, the store

1:13.3

owners and everything, they were all, hey, Daddy, right? Yeah, in fact, one of the coffee shops that

1:21.3

right across the street from the motion lounge was to go in and sit down and have coffee, you know, when I say we, me, Sonny, Lefty,

1:30.6

and a couple of the other guys.

1:33.0

And we also would go in there and have private conversations, me, Lefty, Sonny.

1:40.0

And it was amazing because I walked in there to get a coffee in the same owner.

1:45.9

Say, Donnie, how you been?

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