Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

Very excited to bring you this conversation today with Ray Lyota.

Ray is one of the stars of the highly anticipated new movie, The Many Saints of Newark, which

is a prequel to the iconic HBO series The Sopranos.

What the movie does is explain the rise of Tony Sopranos from his childhood in the 1960s

and 70s up through his teenage years so you understand how he became in that series.

Ray Lyota plays in the film, a character named Hollywood Dick Malthesonti.

He is Christopher Malthesonti's grandfather, Christopher Malthesonti, of course, played

in the series by Michael Imperioli.

Talk a lot about that movie.

Also, of course, have a talk about Goodfellas.

That was Lyota's breakout role as real-life gangster Henry Hill in the 1990 Oscar-winning

movie.

The iconic Martin Scorsese film.

Great stories about a couple of the most famous scenes, including the tracking shot scene

where he walks into the copo with Karen, how that scene, they almost missed it a couple

of times.

He tells those stories.

He's got a great personal story too.

He was adopted.

Born in Newark, New Jersey himself, adopted as an infant grew up in Union, New Jersey,

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