Producer Jane Rosenthal interviewed
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‘The Irishman’ Producer Jane Rosenthal: It’s About “Toxic Masculinity” With “An Older Perspective”
By Antonia Blyth
September 23, 2019 10:21am
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will bring together the triumvirate of Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci with its New York film festival premiere this Friday September 27, and one person who can’t wait for that event is producer Jane Rosenthal. We can also expect a rather different offering from Scorsese this time around, apparently.
“I’m excited for the world to get to see it,” she told Deadline on the Emmy red carpet Sunday. “What will surprise you is, as a Scorsese movie, it is a slower movie. It doesn’t have the kind of intensity, the visual intensity, as a Casino, as a Goodfellas. It is guys looking at themselves through an older perspective.”
Based on Charles Brandt’s non-fiction book, I Heard You Paint Houses, Pacino stars as the ill-fated Jimmy Hoffa, De Niro as hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, and Pesci as Russell Bufalino, the mob boss who steers him. But while the premise may sound action-packed and fast-paced, Rosenthal suggested we will see a somewhat introspective viewpoint. “What you do look at with something like The Irishman is the toxic masculinity,” she said, “and what happens when someone chooses one family over their own nuclear family, and then tries to make repairs at the end of their lives. What happens to particularly men who make that decision.”
By Antonia Blyth
September 23, 2019 10:21am
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will bring together the triumvirate of Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci with its New York film festival premiere this Friday September 27, and one person who can’t wait for that event is producer Jane Rosenthal. We can also expect a rather different offering from Scorsese this time around, apparently.
“I’m excited for the world to get to see it,” she told Deadline on the Emmy red carpet Sunday. “What will surprise you is, as a Scorsese movie, it is a slower movie. It doesn’t have the kind of intensity, the visual intensity, as a Casino, as a Goodfellas. It is guys looking at themselves through an older perspective.”
Based on Charles Brandt’s non-fiction book, I Heard You Paint Houses, Pacino stars as the ill-fated Jimmy Hoffa, De Niro as hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, and Pesci as Russell Bufalino, the mob boss who steers him. But while the premise may sound action-packed and fast-paced, Rosenthal suggested we will see a somewhat introspective viewpoint. “What you do look at with something like The Irishman is the toxic masculinity,” she said, “and what happens when someone chooses one family over their own nuclear family, and then tries to make repairs at the end of their lives. What happens to particularly men who make that decision.”