Joe Pesci

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q20178: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (11 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Bradley Cooper: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · them, directly: Joe Pesci ⇒ Bradley Cooper (the host's read). Cooper plays Rocket as a Joe Pesci type, a full character performance rather than the Hangover guy or a wisecracking donkey.
    “I'm gonna play this like Joe Pashi.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:29:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (24) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Joe Pesci → Goodfellas. Pesci plays against his Goodfellas gangster type, falling in mud and wearing a ringmaster suit.
    “all the Goodfellas and stuff is in there.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:29:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Joe Pesci → The Irishman. The wig theme continues: Pesci is the greatest wig actor, and The Irishman acknowledges the hair piece.
    “He's the greatest wig actor.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:31:21 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): JFK → Joe Pesci. Pesci's JFK is not his best; the hair disqualifies it.
    “The hair alone disqualifies it”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:14:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Joe Pesci → My Cousin Vinny. Maybe Vinny, not Goodfellas, Casino or JFK, is Pesci's shining achievement.
    “Maybe it's my cousin Vinny that is his his shining achievement”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:22:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Joe Pesci → Ed Harris. Both short or bald actors in hairpieces; bald guys only got villain parts in that period.
    “I think that the only parts for bald guys during that period was villain.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:34:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (3)

  1. craft (craft): Joe Pesci → JFK. Pesci will do anything asked, even in a bad wig, and that willingness makes it work.
    “the willingness to go as far out as he needs to to work somehow is that's a winning thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:28:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Joe Pesci → Buster Keaton. What if Edward G. Robinson was also Buster Keaton: a scary gangster who is also a physical comedian.
    “what if Edward G. Robinson was also Buster Keaton?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:29:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Bradley Cooper → Joe Pesci. Cooper plays Rocket as a Joe Pesci type, a full character performance rather than the Hangover guy or a wisecracking donkey.
    “I'm gonna play this like Joe Pashi.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:29:23 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (post-Oscar star vehicles): Joe Pesci → My Cousin Vinny. After the Goodfellas Oscar Pesci got starring vehicles like My Cousin Vinny, something Hollywood no longer does for odd-looking leads.
    “My cousin Vinny.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:34:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

people (5)

  1. people (reunion): Robert De Niro → Joe Pesci. De Niro and Pesci pass in the same scene without sharing one.
    “We get De Niro and Pesci in the same scene, but not really.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:02:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (performance echo): Joe Pesci → The Irishman. Pesci's calm, quiet, smirking cameo is like his Irishman character 26 years early.
    “Pesci doing his Irishman character.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:22:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (casting wink): Joe Pesci → Goodfellas. Pesci's cameo is the one thing that reminds viewers of Goodfellas; maybe purposeful conversation.
    “That's the one thing you really didn't have to do that would remind people of Goodfellas.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:33:28 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Joe Pesci → Marisa Tomei. On set Pesci monopolized Tomei's time and lived the relationship, per Bruce McGill's oral history.
    “Joe Pesci pretty much monopolized Marissa's time offset.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:56:27 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Joe Pesci → Jonathan Lynn. Pesci was hard on director Lynn and stormed off the courtroom set.
    “He was very hard on Jonathan Lynn the director”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:56:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (discovered in): Joe Pesci → The Death Collector. Pesci was out of acting since the 1960s until the 1976 TV movie The Death Collector, which De Niro saw.
    “Hey, let's twist until 1976 is the Death Collector.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:06:19 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (discovery): Robert De Niro → Joe Pesci. De Niro saw Pesci in The Death Collector and felt they would have chemistry.
    “De Niro had somehow seen the death collector on tape and was like, this guy's interesting.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:07:02 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Joe Pesci: Pesci was washed out of acting since the early 60s, running a Bronx restaurant for friends, when De Niro saw him in The Death Collector and pulled him in.
    “I'm running a restaurant in the Bronx for some friends of mine.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:06:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Joe Pesci: Walked off the courtroom set telling Lynn he wasn't there to entertain him, per Bruce McGill.
    “what, do you think I'm here to entertain you”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:57:06 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Joe Pesci: Wears Ewings the whole movie, with cowboy boots; hosts debate aged-best versus aged-worst.
    “He's wearing Ewings.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:57:35 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Joe Pesci: Made a lounge album called Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings for You.
    “Vincent LaGuardia Gambini sings for you.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 1:08:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)