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Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco

Johnny Depp is Donnie Brasco

Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco

Jam Street Media

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, True Crime

4.8566 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Leo Rossi and Joe Pistone get into the showbiz of Donnie Brasco, the movie. Revealing stories of what it was like to work with an A-list actor like Johnny Depp, especially the relationship of respect established between Depp and Joe. Joe Pistone also reveals what parts of the movie were true to his actual experience undercover, and which were fictionalized for the big screen. 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. But there's one movie that

0:13.9

speaks to me more than all the others, Donnie Brasco. It starred Johnny Depp as an FBI agent who went deep

0:20.4

undercover in the New York Mafia.

0:22.5

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

0:26.5

And you know what they say?

0:27.6

Truth is stranger than fiction.

0:29.4

I'm Leo Rossi.

0:30.6

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

0:35.9

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

0:43.9

This is Deep Cover, The Real Donny Brasco, with Joe Stone and Leo Rossi.

0:56.6

Welcome, everybody.

1:04.8

In this episode, we, Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brascoe and I, Leo Rossi,

1:09.5

we are going to tackle show business stories.

1:13.8

Yes, and we both have much to contribute.

1:20.4

You know, primarily Joe, we're going to start out with the Donnie Brasco movie,

1:26.7

which I know most of you've seen, and if you haven't, you're better. And, or you'll get whacked.

1:33.4

And then we're going to have other things that Joe and I produced together, TV series,

1:42.0

movies, and some of the behind the scenes of what really goes on in Hollywood.

1:42.9

Yeah.

1:44.6

Joe, how you doing, buddy?

1:46.2

Okay, Leo, how are you?

1:51.8

Listen, I don't want the listeners to think we're done with undercover stories because we got plenty of those to come, but we're just going to take a little side track here.

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