{"id":219786,"date":"2019-12-03T21:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/kevin-pollak-says-the-irishman-was-great-but-stars-were-too-old"},"modified":"2019-12-03T21:08:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:08:29","slug":"kevin-pollak-says-the-irishman-was-great-but-stars-were-too-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/kevin-pollak-says-the-irishman-was-great-but-stars-were-too-old","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Pollak Says &#039;The Irishman&#039; Was Great, But Stars Were Too Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-131891\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">        \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n        \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" readability=\"29.7092768444\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"59.8016759777\">\n<section id=\"cb-4b4f83a0ab7119c84783dcd365798ddb\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"w-100\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive-item\">\n<div id=\"video-player-006aa7bf-8812-5507-8cf7-8c0c67fb5026-1245509386-image-holder\" class=\"video-block-image-holder vilynx_enabled vilynx_audiopolicycta vilynx_hidectaicon\" data-vilynx-id=\"www.tmz.com\/videos\/120319-kevin-pollak-4687266-0-99qihgjk\">\n              <button class=\"embed-responsive-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-006aa7bf-8812-5507-8cf7-8c0c67fb5026-1245509386-play-btn\"><br \/><span class=\"sr-only\">Play video content<\/span><br \/><\/button><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Kevin-Pollak-Says-039The-Irishman039-Was-Great-But-Stars-Were-Too-Old.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span class=\"media-swipe video-block__media-swipe\">Exclusive<\/span>\n                                        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>              <span class=\"media-credit video-block__media-credit\">TMZ.com<\/span>\n          <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-ec2aedc4e50b406588ba0584ff2d3b7b\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"32.619047619\">\n<p><strong>Kevin Pollak<\/strong> says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/martin-scorsese\/\"><strong>Martin Scorsese<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s new mobster flick, \u201cThe Irishman,\u201d was as good as it gets for the genre \u2014 but there was a little issue according to him \u2026 the stars were too damn old.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-a25791b9605b3fdadf74ed15a296ad11\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"37\">\n<p>We got the veteran actor right on the heels of the new flick landing on Netflix and asked for his thoughts on it \u2026 considering he starred in Marty\u2019s \u201cCasino\u201d and tons of other crime movies. Turns out, he loved \u2018Irishman\u2019 \u2026 with one caveat, and it\u2019s hard to tell if he\u2019s joking.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-08b3914ac32b9ef4a2093e27d83e165e\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block canvas-youtube-video-block-permalink \"\/>\n<section id=\"cb-52596d8b8aa1c8b03ad31d834921f28e\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"39.1609907121\">\n<p>Kevin says at one point \u2026 the film played more like a trio of old coots who lost their keys instead of menacing mobsters in their prime. He does some hilarious impressions too, to drive home his point. Pretty spot-on with his versions of<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/al-pacino\/\"><strong>Pacino<\/strong><\/a>,<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/joe-pesci\/\"><strong>Pesci<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/robert-de-niro\/\"><strong>De Niro<\/strong><\/a>. Well, the first 2 \u2026 he kinda phoned it in for Bobby D.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-5780a3b42d31a40d2c7030f28b4e020e\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"35\">\n<p>If you haven\u2019t seen it yet, the movie captures one hit man\u2019s journey from start to end, so the actors\u2019 appearances do change a lot.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-3f5289e1e0fb35b63dc911443b8ff5ea\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block canvas-youtube-video-block-permalink \"\/>\n<section id=\"cb-0985315089cc4a869130701ad63ab937\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink \" readability=\"33\">\n<p>Of course, the gimmick with the film is the digital de-aging technology the 3 stars were put through \u2014 especially De Niro.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"cb-3e021e56dbd98c7781932b1e6b6173ae\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-block-is-last \" readability=\"31\">\n<p>Some say it was distracting \u2014 others say it was great \u2014 but Kevin seems to be alluding to the fact these fellas might\u2019ve made this a little late in their careers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/12\/03\/kevin-pollak-the-irishman-pacino-de-niro-pesci-too-old\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/kevin-pollak-says-the-irishman-was-great-but-stars-were-too-old\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play video contentExclusive TMZ.com Kevin Pollak says Martin Scorsese\u2018s new mobster flick, \u201cThe Irishman,\u201d was as good as it gets for the genre \u2014 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}