He played trigger-happy, heroin-addicted gangster Christopher Moltisanti. As Michael Imperioli takes the TV classic on tour, he remembers the time he almost killed the leading man
There’s a scene in Goodfellas in which gangster Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci, shoots dead a young bartender called Spider who had unwisely told him to “go fuck yourself”. Pesci won an Oscar for the film – and while Spider the bartender was a small role for the then little-known Michael Imperioli, it was to be his big break.
“I wanted that job at all costs,” Imperioli says. “It was Martin Scorsese – he’d made some of my favourite movies. I was all in.”
