![]() “The relationship that he has with Sebastian is great. He invited the elder Maniscalco to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was filming Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” so he could pick his brain about everything from being a hairdresser to Sicilian dialect. “I just thought: I’m in.”īut before they could start filming, De Niro had a little homework to do. ![]() “My rep called me and said, I’ve just been given a script, it stars Robert De Niro and he’s playing a hairdresser,” Cattrall said. ![]() Her brothers are played by Anders Holm and Brett Dier. Ellie’s (Leslie Bibb) family is WASPy and wealthy – Kim Cattrall plays her mother, Tigger, and David Rasche is her father, Bill. Sebastian brings Salvo to his girlfriend’s family home for the Fourth of July weekend. The setup for “About My Father,” opening nationwide on May 26, is a meet-the-parents situation. Between the Sebastian/Salvo relationship and director Laura Terruso’s background as an Italian American with Sicilian roots, he said, “I knew I’d be in good hands on both sides. ![]() “It sort of lifts it off the page a little bit,” De Niro said. It’s something he likes to do if he’s taking something seriously, he said. Then one day he got word that De Niro had the script, through producer Paul Weitz, and wanted to do a table read with some actors in New York. Maniscalco had worked on a film with De Niro before, on Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” but it was brief and didn’t exactly establish anything like a friendship where he could, say, call him up. ![]()
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