The actor brought fearsome energy and edge to projects big and small, beyond his crowning turn in Scorsese's masterwork 'Goodfellas.'
Sure, he played the occasional good guy over the course of his prolific but too-short career; and in the wake of his death late Wednesday night, former colleagues have testified to his off-screen warmth.
But the dark energies that defined his persona were there from the start, in Jonathan Demme’s 1986There, playing a criminal determined to take his estranged wife back from the milquetoast guy she’s currently toying with, Liotta understood how to make false congeniality look just real enough to convince a gullible character while letting moviegoers see the menace beneath it.
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