OLDFELLAS!
Gang’s back together at combined age of 231 – Pacino, De Niro and Scorsese
‘We have this potential’
AS far back as they can remember, they always wanted to make gangster movies.
And despite the greying hair, a few wrinkles and a preference for comfy shoes, that’s exactly what this mob of septuagenarian Hollywood legends have done.
Robert de Niro, 76, Al Pacino, 79, and director Martin Scorsese, 76, hit the red carpet at Leicester Square to promote their new crime epic The Irishman.
De Niro admitted they now film at ‘a slower pace’, but said: ‘We work like a well-oiled machine because of the history between us.’
It is his ninth movie with the director, which began with Mean Streets in 1973 and included tour de force Goodfellas from 1990. Scorsese veterans Joe Pesci, 76, and Harvey Keitel, 80, also star in The Irishman, which is based on the life of hitman and union boss Frank Sheeran.
Computer technology has been used to digitally de-age the actors, since the narrative spans 50 years.
Pacino – who wore trainers to the premiere – said of the CGI: ‘We have this potential and it’s exercised in the film. In the old days they had an actor we all knew and love and put grey hair on him and we would be like, “Oh, he got older”.’