Gianni Russo: I Got My Role in 'Godfather' After Mob Boss Joe Colombo Threatened Paramount (Part 9)

Just watched the offer

This dude is the real life Johnny Fontane.

Who’s here after watching “the offer”

Russo lives in an alternate reality God bless him. Puts himself at the centre of strategies and decisions he had absolutely no part of other than being another illiterate thug who fell into the role of Carlo and was seen as a joke by the rest of the crew and actors. Only tolerated as a questionable accommodation lol

Guy is a enormous liar. Like most of the guests on this show.

The irony is that he played the one character in the Godfather films who was an outsider in the gangster family, yet in reality he was the only cast member who really did have a mob background!

Hes been in tons of films yet The Godfather is what hes known for. He didnt even really have much a part in those films.

It's easy to tell a great story when everyone involved is dead or doesn't want to incriminate themselves.

Now tell us about how you started the Catholic church when you and Joey Bagadonuts invented a time machine and went back to have lunch with Constantine and give him battle strategy.

He cant read? Dummie

The Mafia wrecked America and it's too bad people glorify these creeps.

Fed. Tara.

I don't believe a word this guy says lol

Greatest bs story teller there is !!

Gianni gump

I just watched the Offer and they played him as a woman slapping wild man who took a real beating over the situation.Everyone has their own opinion of what happened.

The man can't read. That there is his biggest bullsh*t story he's told.

The offer brought me here

He’s betrayed as a real scumbag in The Offer

i think he was really like a guy like Spider got the guys their drinks & cleaned ash trays

so he MADE the deal for the movie but so he is not mentioned in The Offer - "Excuse Me" I want to Michael Sonny or Rizzi" - Columbo says "he's Rizzi" because Stugots here MADE the deal to get The Godfather made - he is not playing with a full deck

so who is lying this braciole Michael Franzsese or Al Ruddy - this kid is telling Columbo how to earn wants the/gets the part - the studio gates are blown up - all this shit with The Offer is bs i think - him & M F should be with the fishes for shooting off their mouths

Why is it I don’t believe one frigen word this guy says!

This guy is one big BS artist. Most of the stories he tells he's made up.

Damn he can’t even read but he so wise

Gianni Russo, Did you know me and Bernie Madoff were best friends, I learned a lot from him.

He is bull shit gold !

I can’t read?

He needs to learn how to read.

Jimmy Conn did not play Michael and the other guy you mentioned did not play sonny

To some that was a big movie, for him to have a part made lot think hey dude part of the mob. Made him feel special. You don't piss off the Mob not back then. Some think they don't exist today. I'm not sure lot stuff still going. On in Chicago, other big cities. Is Gangs today considered the new Mob. I don't know. Last time I was in Chicago went to the cemetery. People still leaving stuff on Capone grave.. Me I just mind my own business and leave others alone. Have I seen The God Father,? "yes but my Husband and sons like it more than me. Because more Guys get it than women. Surprising new generations are watching it now. This guy is he the only one still alive that was in that movie,?. People will still be able to watch this on some network long after I'm gone. Vj.

Did he say he can't read?

If he didn't try to give that guy a pink rabbits foot none of this would have ever happened!

He's like the Forrest Gump of the mob

Notice when he gets ready to tell the story he moves his mouth and doesn't talk

So he says that he went to Grace kelly's wedding in 1956. He also said banged Marilyn Monroe in 1963 when he was 16. He was born in 1943 , yet he says in another interview that he would drive Grace Kelly around it just don't wash . It would make him 13 years old at her wedding and he also claims he went with Frank Sinatra.
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I invented the wheel it was Joe Colombo who gave me the idea ironically enough.

I tip my caps off to him he can't read but accomplished so much man common sense is worth alot

Did I hear it right he can't read?

Ok we understand you got new teeth

How do you misspelled name from title to in the description.

Colombo

Somebody read it to me cuz I can't read - Gianni Russo

when they landed on the moon - I was there!

Some folks are born hustlers and he is proof

He`s a fluent liar

So.. We just gonna ignore :49

Wow what a life this dude has had even if half of everything he says is untrue and he just said that he cant even read at first I thought this guy lied about everything but after watching more and more things about him I think there is truth in what he says everything might not be 100% but some truth in it if he was a bold faced liar I dont think he would have said he cant read seems like he would at least lie about that

I wonder if he ever learned to read

So there I was with the script that has Carlo’s lines in it—only I can’t read, see?  So I says to the director, “Brando has to read the script to me.”  Brando told me to go to hell.  Only he wakes up one morning with a horse’s head in bed with him.  That’s where they got the idea for that in the film.  Needless to say, Brando read me the script starting next day.  I also sent him out for fried baloney sandwiches and milkshakes.

You can’t deny this story because he was in the movie!