{"id":119507,"date":"2022-07-27T06:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T00:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/martin-scorsese-remembers-paul-sorvino-generous-soul\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T06:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T00:53:04","slug":"martin-scorsese-remembers-paul-sorvino-a-generous-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/martin-scorsese-remembers-paul-sorvino-a-generous-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Scorsese remembers Paul Sorvino, a ‘Generous Mind’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Martin Scorsese opens up about the loss he suffered from his former wife \u201cGoodfellas\u201dPaul Sorvino, the late actor. <\/p>\n

Calm him \u201ca great, generous soul, and an irreplaceable artist\u201d in an official statement, the Oscar-winning filmmaker noted Sorvino\u2019s dedication to his craft and compared him to some of the masters of the screen. Scorsese also detailed some of the actor\u2019s lesser-known performances outside his tough-guy oeuvre.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPaul Sorvino was a brilliant actor. He was completely immersed in his craft, and his level of mastery could take your breath away,\u201dScorsese started. \u201cLook at his performance as Louis Fraina in\u00a0\u2018Reds\u2019\u00a0<\/em>by Warren Beatty. He found a wonderfully expressive voice for his character, and quite a unique body language: urgent, fervent, and impassioned. Watch it back to back with his performance as the televangelist in\u00a0\u2018Oh God\u2019\u00a0by Carl Reiner. At first glance, it seems like a broad comic turn, a send-up of Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Falwell. But when you really pay attention, you see that Paul is inhabiting the character completely. It\u2019s hilarious but it\u2019s also sobering and disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the performance in \u201cOh God,\u201dScorsese explained that Scorsese was convinced to cast him in the role of Paulie Cicero \u201cGoodfellas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved working with Paul on that picture. It wasn\u2019t always easy, but that\u2019s never the point to begin with. Paul was tireless \u2014 he never settled for less than a deeper emotional truth. I learned a lot from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scorsese continued: \u201cI remember one day, I was doing a few takes with him on a scene and it wasn\u2019t quite there. He said to me about the third or fourth time. \u2018Come away from the monitor and watch me<\/em>.\u2019 That\u2019s what I did, and I could see it right away. It was a great lesson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really saddened to hear the news of his passing,\u201dThe filmmaker concluded. \u201cin part because it was so close to losing Ray Liotta. But it was also the loss of a great, generous soul, and an irreplaceable artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The veteran actor, father to actor Michael Sorvino, and Mira Sorvino was an activist and actress best known for his role in the Oscar-winning Scorsese film. He passed away Monday, at the age of 83, from natural causes.<\/p>\n

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Martin Scorsese opens up about the loss he suffered from his former wife \u201cGoodfellas\u201dPaul Sorvino, the late actor. Calm him \u201ca great, generous soul, and an irreplaceable artist\u201d in an official statement, the Oscar-winning filmmaker noted Sorvino\u2019s dedication to his craft and compared him to some of the masters of the screen. Scorsese also detailed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":119508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Martin-Scorsese-Remembers-Paul-Sorvino-Generous-Soul.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119509,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119507\/revisions\/119509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}