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Frank Sivero’s performance gave Frankie Carbone this perfect low-key humor (especially when he mumbles in Italian).

He didn’t say much, but his comedic timing and improvisation (under Scorsese’s direction, of course) was on point. Somehow, he captured Carbone’s fidgety nervousness in the midst of all that mob violence.

I feel like when he was around Jimmy and Tommy D., even though they were his associates in crime, those guys were such cold-blooded killers that their mere presence turned him into a scatterbrain. “The car’s cold!”

Frank Sivero’s acting career goes way back. He had a small part in The Godfather as a street bystander who witnessed Carlo Rizzi’s beating by Sonny, and as Genco Abbandando in The Godfather II. Happy to report he’s still alive and kicking at 74!

Jonathan Glazer is one of my favorite filmmakers. He doesn’t have a lengthy body of work, but he delivered a quality product in each of his four films: Sexy Beast, Birth, Under the Skin, and Zone of Interest.