May 25, 2021
I’m happy to bring you a new, unfiltered talk with a fascinating person who’s famous, and yet, maybe you don’t know on a personal level! Today it’s Lillo Brancato, star of A Bronx Tale, alongside Chazz Palminteri and Robert De Niro. Lillo also played Matt Bevilaqua on The Sopranos and he was the subject of the documentary Wasted Talent.
Lillo was a guest on Really Famous last year and it was pretty major, not gonna lie. He shared his whole story of becoming discovered – on the beach! – and getting involved with drugs, being involved in a fatal shooting, and going to prison. He also revealed his honest feelings about Chazz Palminteri, who was like a mentor to him, before things turned, well, they turned ugly.
Listen here:
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And now, for a new, loose, light, fun, film-filled, Italy-loving new talk!
We talk:
- The Sopranos
- A Bronx Tale
- Gomorrah
- Napoli
- Italy
- His parents
- Being adopted from Colombia
- Fitness
- Robert De Niro
- Chazz Palminteri
- What he'd say to Chazz if he could
- Monumentally bad choices
- Paying his debt to society
- Positivity
- Second chances
- The Godfather films
- The Irishman
- Marlon Brando
- Oh so much more!
Links:
- Tickets to Chazz Palminteri's live onstage event in NYC: really-famous.com/contact
- Watch Lillo and me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/reallyfamous
- Our first talk (Lillo + me): https://really-famous.com/now/lillo-brancato
- My first talk with Chazz Palminteri: https://really-famous.com/now/chazz-palminteri
- My talks with Michael Imperioli: https://really-famous.com/now/michael-imperioli
- My talks with Danny Aiello: https://really-famous.com/now/danny-aiello-returns
- Watch Gomorrah: HBOMax.com
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Celebrity interview by Kara Mayer Robinson
Music credit:
Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeod incompetech - Creative Commons