Ray Liotta (2021)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ray Liotta may be best known for his breakout performance as real-life gangster Henry Hill in the iconic movie Goodfellas, a role that had the former soap opera star sharing famous scenes with Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro and Lorraine Bracco. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist re-visits a favorite conversation with the actor, who died this week at the age of 67. In one of Liotta's last interviews, they talk about that indelible movie and a career that took him from Field of Dreams to the Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark. (Original broadcast date: September 26, 2021)

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0:00.0	Mmm, the subway festive stack.
0:02.0	Oh, what's that then?
0:03.0	It's a turkey sub with maple smoked bacon and hash browns.
0:06.3	Let's give it a try.
0:12.0	Now dip it in the gravy.
0:15.4	Ah, yeah, that's well nice.
0:17.4	How about a side of pigs and blankets?
0:19.1	The food, the food, the food.
0:23.1	The food, the food, the food, the food.
0:26.1	Feed your festive spirit with Subway's new menu.
0:32.1	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode
0:34.1	of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.
0:36.1	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:39.1	Very excited to bring you this conversation today with Raid Liota.
0:43.1	Raid is one of the stars of the highly anticipated new movie,
0:46.1	movie The Many Saints of Newark, which is a prequel to the iconic HBO series The
0:51.9	Sopranos. What the movie does is explain the rise of Tony Sopranos from his
0:57.0	childhood in the 1960s and 70s up through his teenage years so you understand how
1:02.1	he became who he became in that series. Ray Leota plays in the film, a character
1:08.4	named Hollywood Dick Maltesanti. He is Christopher Maltesanti's grandfather,
1:13.7	Christopher Maltesanti, of course played in the series by Michael Imperioli. Talk
1:18.3	a lot about that movie. Also, of course, have talk about Goodfellas. That was
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