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“Nick Pileggi had written it and Barry Levinson was going to direct it.”
“And one thing I had asked Nick about is why he used Alto Knights.
I said, ‘I don’t know if you know this, but I know this place.
I used to hang out there when I was a teenager.’
And so he said he used it for the story.
It was a very accurate, terrific piece.
He knew about the world down there, the social clubs, and all that stuff.
I forget the exact, but he said he got it from that somehow.”
‘How about you playing the two parts?'"
“It wasn’t an immediate idea.
They went through some names and then Irwin said, ‘Maybe you ought to try that.’
I thought, ‘Well, that’s interesting.
Let me think about it.'”
The Alto Knights is in theaters from March 21.
