Martin Scorsese Remembers Paul Sorvino: ‘A Great, Generous Soul, and an Irreplaceable Artist’
thewrap.comby 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 ‘Oh God’ by 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’s hilarious but it’s also sobering and disturbing.”It was that performance in “Oh God,” Scorsese explained, that convinced him to cast him to play Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas.”“I loved working with Paul on that picture.
It wasn’t always easy, but that’s never the point to begin with. Paul was tireless — he never settled for less than a deeper emotional truth.
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