| Donnie Brasco - 1997 TriStar Pictures Character Joseph Pistone (aka Donnie Brasco) Distinguishing traits/features: Uncanny ability to walk and talk the part of a mafioso Trivia Johnny met with the actual Joseph Pistone to gain insight and expertise for the role. Johnny also took gun firing lessons from the FBI. Donnie uses a microcassette recorder to record evidence but the device was not introduced until 1979. |
| _____________________________::Joseph Pistone (aka Donnie Brasco):: |
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| "Before meeting Joe I was concerned that we wouldn't like one another. I thought FBI guy: authority: machine: John Wayne. I thought we would hate each other. I mean, I'm not the most patriotic guy in the world?But when we spent time together, I found him to be incredibly warm, sensitive, caring - which is at odds with this machine who could go undercover and do what he did. I spent tons of time with him, and studied him." |
| Director Mike Newell: “This particular role interested him because the whole character had to run beneath the surface, as it were. Johnny is one of those actors who acts in a kind of long term. You stay with his characterization through out a film because he tells you his story in his own good time – and more important – you are willing to wait for it.” |
| Newell: “He is an unplowed field, a man unencumbered by ego, and increasingly confident of his gift for transforming himself into anything he wants to be.” |
| Joe Pistone: “He brought a sensitivity to the part. That’s a side of me that a lot of people don’t see. It was amazing – a lot of times during the shoot, I’d close my eyes and say, ‘Christ, that’s me talking.!’ It was eerie. The kid’s a good actor. He doesn’t seem to put much effort in it, he just does it.” |
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