De Niro is Irish Catholic (and Italian, Dutch, French, German, English) but he's more Irish than anything. Well, maybe not American.
His father is half Italian/half Irish. He's neither on his mother's side. He's equal parts Irish and Italian. He has an Italian last name and an Italian-style nose and mannerisms, so tends to be type cast as Italian (and sometimes Jewish). Although in the Goodfellas he played a half Irish/half Italian.
Pesci is playing an Italian mob boss that Deniro's character works for. Now passing off Pesci as anything but Italian would be ridiculous.
This is apparently Daniel Craig's final outing as 007, so I'd love to see him go out on a high note with this one. One of the best Bonds ever IMO.
I've heard this song and dance before. He was supposed to be done after Skyfall but then all of a sudden the giant truck full of money showed up and he unexpectedly changed his mind....
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I've heard this song and dance before. He was supposed to be done after Skyfall but then all of a sudden the giant truck full of money showed up and he unexpectedly changed his mind....
Can't blame him. $80 million CAD to make one movie?!
I've heard this song and dance before. He was supposed to be done after Skyfall but then all of a sudden the giant truck full of money showed up and he unexpectedly changed his mind....
I think after Skyfall he said something like "I never want to play Bond again" but it was in the same way you might say "I never want to see another pizza again" after eating 3 of them. He wasn't really serious at that point.
I'm pretty sure the rumors before were just him being like "yeah, I don't know..." -- now it's been pretty well publicized that this is his last outing. He's 51 right now, he'd be pushing 55 if they waited another four years for the next.
