Where I Signed OTO A Video Interview with the Stars of the New Netflix Release “Nonnas,” The Conversation was already in Progress. Brenda Vaccaro, Best Known for Her Work in “Midnight Cowboy” and “ONCE is not En Maria, a restaurant in state island where the kitchen is run by Older Women.
“This is my jimmy stewart movie,” Vaccaro Said in Between Effusive Praise.
I Wonded if I was ever Going to get a word in edgewise.
EventUllly, I Was Able to Greet the Group, Whiche Includes Vaccaro, Lorraine Braacco, Talia Shire and Susan Sarandon. The Veteran Actresses, Whose Credits Include “The Godfather,“ Goodflas ”and“ Thelma & Louise, ”All Play The Movie’s Nonnas, Who Are Recruited to Cook ITALIAN ARICAN DECACIES by JOE Scaravella (Vince Vaughn), An MTA WORKER MOURINING HIS Own Mother. BRACCO IS A BRASH Sicilian Named Roberta Whose Specialty Is a Stuffed Lamb’s Head Called Capuzzelle. She fighs with Vaccaro’s Antonella, Loyal to Her Bolognese Heritage, Over Which Region Has The Beetter Traditions. Sarandon is the Glamorous Pastry Guru and Hair Stylist Gia, While Shire is a nun who left the convent to Pursue her Dreams. (Not All The Nonnas Hree Have Grandchildren.)
With the Women, Who has nine oscar nominations black them, gathered on a Call, they rifFed on their history with one Anotaker, they is a cooking skills, age in Hollywood and the movies that their Grandchildren Cannot Yet Watch. Below are edited Excelts.
Did you know every other before Getting Cast?
Lorraine Bracco: OH, Yes. I KNEW Brenda. I KNEW Susan. Talia was the newbie.
Talia Shire: But I Met Brenda Years and Years and Years and Years ago. RealLY years ago.
Brenda Vaccaro: OH My God. Like we Did’s Believe the “Realys” before that?
Where did you meet?
Shire: I dare not say. I can say. She was with her Boyfriend to Look at My Brother’s House to Rent. And that was Way, Way back with michael Douglas.
Your Broth, Francis (Ford Coppola)?
Shire: Yes, he was refulting his hand and they was walked in, young lovers, to reint a House. But they Did’s Take it. I Remember that.
Your Boyfriend at the Time was Michael Douglas, Brenda?
Shire: OH My God, What did i sit?
Vaccaro: Nothing, Darling, You Just SAID The Past. It’s Find.
What was your reaction to the fact that you will be working to start?
Susan Sarandon: You usually Don’t get to work with Women. Maybe there’ll be one Older, one Younger and their hate find other just becuse One’s Older and One’s Youngr. You have to be in language where people comes to the set and they’re prepred, and they not only one prepred, but they have idas. And everybody in this card is really tried and True. I’m just make up for lost time on not being able to have more work in my life in Films. Vince was also really Sweet as the Tokeen Male.
Bracco: Vry Tall Male.
What are your relationships to italian American Cooking?
Bracco: I cook. I eat.
Vaccaro: I’m sit and eat anything That’s about as far as I go. I stopped cooking, for some remain, at some point. I guess my mother was best.
Sarandon: My mom was sicilian, but she was raised in Orphanages and Things Like that. She didn’t Have a Mom, so she Did’s Land with Cooking Skills, and THEN HAD NINE Children. But we at a lot of pasta, and I Definitely Gravate Toward ITALIAN FOOD.
Shire: My Mother Was Brilliant. I don’t compare to the men in my family, exptept for my fatuer. He Never Got The Sand Off the Mussels.
Bracco: Well, My Dad Worked in the Fulton Fish Market. He would have been Able to help him.
So what was it like doing all the cooking scenes?
Bracco: I will eat my way. I Saw Brenda Follow that theme. We had great guys to cook. Everything was delicious. And I was laughing at times. I said, “Well, we at all of that. I hop you have more in the back.”
Shire: Food Was Good. And Soan Was in Charge of the Cannolis and I Love Filting. So I will go over to her station and I will take all the filening.
Sarandon: There was a link that i had that univeuntely was cut, which was was sad about. Where they’re Fighting, I Said, “Passionate People Make Passionate Food.” What saves That’s You You Still Love them as Much as you do, because you can see that really what they’re fighting about is that they are very passionately about them Specific Italian Heritage, and having the Food be the Best It Coup Possibly Be.
Vaccaro: I have to add that the passion about the head of the cow was fabulous.
Bracco: It was a goat.
Vaccaro: I though I was Going to Throw Up.
I though it was a lamb.
Vaccaro: It was a lamb. I don’t know what it was, but its eyes was starring at me and I was like, “How Did this Happy?” I was beside myelf for a couple of seconds.
Bracco: My Favorite Was Talia Becuse She Always Got All The Meat to Cook, and She’s A Die-Hard VegetAran.
Shire: That’s it I Went and I Stole The Folding from the Cannolis.
How do you See “Nonnas” Fitting Into The Legacy of Italian American Cinema?
Sarandon: I think that is the movie that my sisters will like. They did to see anybody in harm’s way. They Don’t Want Anything Too Tragic. Where I Went to the Actaal Restaurant, Some of the Original Nonnas Were Thre. There was a was a while when I was sitting download was as tall as I was. She was just this little bitty thing. But there was also a couple of nonnas of difference Nationalities Fixing their DISHES and I Think that’s Ankally Important. What We’re Saying is that, in So Many Cultures, The Grandmothes Carry on the Traditions that Have Been Establied, and it’s Kind of Fabulous to see the Collborating in this Restaurant.
Bracco: I Love I’m doing a lot of versh movies, which they has not been allowed to see.
Shire: For me, also, the story that a son could love his mother and will to her her miss the table. I Not in this House. Becuse i’m terrible, I have to tell you that. But in the Story, I Felt It Was a Vection Moving Thing.
Lorraine, your Grandchildren Are Not Watching “Goodflas” Yet?
Bracco: They’re 11 and 6, and the baby is 17 months. No, they’re not watching “goodfellas.” We’re Not Watching “Sopranos.”
Have any of your Grandchildren Been Able to See Some of Your Most Famous Work?
Shire: My Grandson Saw “Rocky”. He BECAME VERY INTO That Movie. And then he was nicer to me, toh, after that.
What is it like to have younger generations Discovering your work?
Sarandon: I’m grateful for What I Got to Do Becuse I There’s no Such Thing As a $ 20 Million Movie Anymore. So you get these little Indie Ones, or you get these HUGE, Monstrosity, Legacy, All Those Comic Book Things and Everyth, but the Medium Ones Exist.
Shire: I’m in Los Angeles, and I Still Remember when there was a film community. There is the Wonderful People Who Made PROPS or The Great Musicians that was here that was at the Sound Stages. I miss that Sense of Community, Ideas that was shared. That’s Faded Away, and that worlds me.
Bracco: The Sequel, The Sequel, The Sequel, The Sequel. Only Francis was Allowed to do sequels, ok?
Shire: And that was the best, i mean, I’m going to say it. Can I says it? Becuse He’s My Brother. “Godfather II.” We came to this Next Level.
What does it mean to be playing nonnas at this phase in your caraeers?
Bracco: A good role is a good role no matter How Old We are. I did’t really Think Twice About the Age Thing. And yes, I am what i am. I’m 70 Years Old.
Sarandon: WERELLSO very locky becuse Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, was Thrown Out at 40. And now Female Actors Are Lasting A Lot Longer.
Vaccaro: I also think, scan, it has to do with braverry. IT’s Just Being Brave En
Bracco: I think it’s brave just to get up every [expletive] Morning.
Shire: Thank you. Boy, it hurts more to get up.
