![]() De Niro and Corman visited Pesci at work to sound him out. ![]() She found her man living above an Italian restaurant he was managing – Amici’s, a popular Bronx eatery on Arthur Avenue in New York’s Little Italy. It was left to Corman to track Pesci down. ‘What I liked was he seemed like he was so authentic that he, how should I say it, was an actor but he was not an actor. This guy is interesting.’ ‘I liked him,’ remembers Scorsese. ‘That’s how I saw Joe for the first time,’ recalls De Niro. Corman sent Robert De Niro a copy of the film. The film hadn’t made much of an impression, but the actor playing Joe, a debt enforcer for the mob, had. Sitting in a movie theatre as the credits rolled on The Death Collector (1975), Raging Bull’s casting director Cis Corman felt they could have found their Joey LaMotta.
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