Goodfellas/Trivia


 * The Danza: Paul Cícero, played by Paul Sorvino.
 * Dawson Casting: Joe Pesci was 46 at the time of filming and plays Tommy starting his early twenties.
 * Enforced Method Acting: A number of scenes are partially ad-libbed with actors not told beforehand
 * Specially relevant in the "I'm funny how?" one; Pesci and Liotta were instructed to improvise, other actors didn't know what was going to happen so their surprised-to-panicked reactions and puzzled faces are genuine. The scene mirrors what happened to Pesci in Real life; he told a mobster in a restaurant that he was funny and the mobster got angry. Scorsese implemented it once he learnt about it, as it wasn't in the book.
 * Scorsese also had all the actors involved in the kitchen scene (while ) simply improvise their dialogue for that sequence. The final scene with was also ad-libbed, with the only scripted line being "Why don't you go fuck yourself?"
 * Hey, It's That Guy!:
 * Senator Clay Davis appears briefly as a doctor taking care of Henry's brother.
 * Jigsaw is Jimmy Conway's parole officer.
 * Billy's cousin Sean is Henry's brother
 * Rotti Largo is a mob boss? That explains so much!
 * Christopher is shot by Tommy. Big Mistake on Tommy's part
 * Dr Melfi likes the Gangster lifestyle more than She admitted
 * Tommy murders Phil Leotardo
 * Paulie almost shoved a mailman into an oven.
 * Henry Hill eventually went down south and conquered Vice City.
 * Mean Character, Nice Actor:
 * Joe Pesci had problems with the Spider scene because he couldn't understand the outrageous reaction of his own character.
 * Paul Sorvino almost walked out because he felt that he couldn't reach the cold personality of his role because he was the opposite kind of individual.