When Robert De Niro convinced Martin Scorsese to make another movie with him for the first time since 1995’s “Casino,” they agreed to assemble the best possible ensemble for the gangster epic “The Irishman.” At a recent AFI Fest tribute, Scorsese said that Al Pacino was “always something unreachable,” but it was De Niro who connected the two, and knew Pacino could bring a certain grit to the role of Jimmy Hoffa.“If we were going to put De Niro and Scorsese together, it had to be something special,” producer Jane Rosenthal told IndieWire.
“We were going back to this world.
What was going to make this different from ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Casino,’ how different was it going to be for Marty as a director to put in his time and energy, and for De Niro as an actor? For the rest of the band we put in Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel,
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