![]() I never got nightmares about it or anything.Īfter the Oscar nod for Bullets Over Broadway you’re on top of the world and just a few years later you get knocked back down to earth. Funny, obviously it effected me in some way cause I did write about it. People always say it must have been traumatic and I got to be honest, I never got effected about it. But he stared at me and my father just dragged me upstairs. He shot this guy and killed him right in from of me, and then he stared at me. PHOTOS: Robert De Niro’s Top 20 Highest-Grossing FilmsĪ Bronx Tale is loaded with autobiographical incidents, like the time you saw a guy murdered. He said, ‘I’ll tell you how I feel, you should play Sonny and you should write the screenplay.’ He said, ‘I’ll play your father and I’ll direct and if you shake my hand, that’s the way it will be.’ I shook his and hand that’s the way it was. He’s in your dressing room waiting.’ I walked into the dressing room and there was Robert DeNiro. They said, ‘Robert DeNiro just saw your show. It won’t get made with you, but it will get made.’ He said, ‘What makes you so confident?’ I go, ‘Cause it’s too f**king good, that’s why.’ ![]() (The producer) looked at me and said, ‘Y’know Chazz, this movie won’t get made.’ I said, ‘You’re right. I got another offer, $1 million to walkaway. I had $200 in the bank, okay? I ended up signing with William Morris. Two weeks later another studio came in and offered $500 thousand to walk away. I said no, I want to write it and I want to play Sonny. The first week I got offered $250 thousand, but they didn’t want me in it. You opened in a little theater on Hollywood Boulevard and that’s when everything started to move. I went home and I sat there and that’s when I stared writing A Bronx Tale. He said, ‘You’ll be fired in 15 minutes.’ And I said, ‘Get on line everybody tells me that.’ And lo and behold it was Swifty Lazar, and it was his party I was keeping him out of. I was working the door and this guy came over and was a little arrogant with me and I didn’t like that. PHOTOS: Tribeca: Nas, Robert De Niro and Susan Sarandon Attend the Film Festivalįor you it all started when you were a bouncer at Club 2020. Here, Palminteri talks about witnessing murder, getting fired by Swifty Lazar and why cancer was the best thing that ever happened to him. I said I always wanted to give somebody a shot.” And so he did, agreeing to star as ruthless outlaw Sal Sicuso who turns up on the doorstep of his brother, banished mafioso, Gino (D’Aquila). “I read the play, I said, ‘Holy shit!’ This is a new voice I haven’t heard,” Palminteri tells The Hollywood Reporter.
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