Another person had put that they worked with him at Red Lobster. The site was a filming location for the 1990 crime drama “Goodfellas,” in which Serrone played a young Henry Hill, the mobster-turned-informant. Serrone also said Pesci enjoyed telling him dirty jokes. 'That's how Goodfellas was.

person will not be tolerated. 'They wouldn't even necessarily be from my school, they could be from one of the other schools and but they knew I was the kid from Goodfellas. Cloudy and damp with rain this morning...then becoming sunny by afternoon. and he signed the glass, and I still have it at my mom's to this day.

Serrone revealed: 'I wouldn't say I grew up always scared, but after filming Goodfellas every guy at high school, junior high, in my neighborhood and in other neighborhoods wanted to be the ones to beat me up. Be Proactive. look it up on IMDB.com. You walk in this place, the bar is iconic.”.

Serrone was a 13-year-old freshman at Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts when the movie was released.

Billy Zane puckers up as he is revealed to be returning to the cast of Zoolander 2, 'Robert De Niro was a fat a**hole, Bob Fosse went on drug-fuel rampages and called me a c***, Eric Roberts was a monster and spit in my face.' He was an older gentleman and still had a lot of life in him, but he also had a fragile quality to him.

Sorry to the people with dial up, now that I've read the complaints, I will use it in the future. 'I could always take a punch, that was my problem. I remember my mom saying, "Why don't you just stop fighting?" High 71F. 'I do a lot of guest appearances at conventions and sign autographs and things like that,' he explained. Henry Hill died in the most unexpected way: of a heart attack, aged 69. racist or sexually-oriented language. 'Let's just say I have been offered many, many a position, many a job, many a membership. 'I think the one personal question I did ask was, "Did Karen Hill really pull a gun on you?" They'd say "Where's the kid? “They’ve been watching me for 30 years,” Serrone said. Look at my shoes. I did a shot of whisky with him that night and hated it. There was definitely a lot of that.'. “It was kind of funny to watch police set up barricades so he could do his fireworks shows.”. In a scene after Hill begins making some money, he begins dressing up. I was lucky enough it was for a woman.”. I mean, I’ve seen films but never connected to me that way,” he said. ", 'And then a guy would appear and say, "So you think you're so and so, do ya? 'Around 90% were physical altercations. Hill’s last major job with his gang was the Lufthansa heist at JFK Airport in December 1978, which netted them a then record haul of nearly $6m in cash and jewelry. People feel like they know the actor.

that is degrading to another person. 'Even though it's now 25 years later and I've changed how I look, people have kind of followed along with me so they know how I look. I went to www.imdb.com to see if he had done anything recent and was sad to see that Goodfellas was the only thing.

accounts, the history behind an article. “There’s something to be said for tradition,” Serrone said. 'One thing I do pride myself on is being an approachable person and so if I get a friend request on Facebook or message on my fan page, I always respond. Serrone said he’s now seen the movie 2,500 times but hasn’t watched it in two or three years, calling himself “my own worst critic.”. Eventually, Hill testified against his former associates to avoid a possible execution by his crew or going to prison for his crimes. Be Truthful.

The 1990 mob film “Goodfellas” catapulted Christopher Serrone to fame when he was just 12. 'I really mean this, there wasn't an ego on set, and Ray was such a professional. “To me, being a gangster was better than being president of the United States.”.

His own life became one long uphill struggle, losing out on career defining roles to the likes of upcoming young actors like Christian Bale and Chris O'Donnell, and taking on the even greater challenge of being the Goodfellas kid that every guy wanted the glory of throwing a punch at.

'When I turned 18 I'd been in at least a few hundred fights.

Every kid in my neighborhood wanted to be the guy who beat up the gangster kid from Goodfellas. Go get The Kid.’ So much to the point where when Paulie Cicero [played by Paul Sorvino] introduces me to Jimmy Conway [De Niro] he goes, ‘I’d like you to meet The Kid ‘Hendry.”’ Subconsciously he was calling me what everybody else was calling me.”.

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