Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman received some backlash to its three-hour-and-29-minute run-time, though the cast defended the movie’s length while speaking to THR ahead of the film’s world premiere at the 2019 New York Film Festival.
Bobby Cannavale simply told viewers to “get over” their concerns about the runtime. “It’s a Martin Scorsese movie with Bob De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci — it’s an incredible film. I didn’t want it to end,” he said, adding that the movie’s length was “deliberate.”
“I think that there’s something very sad about that ending. It’s so epic in scale that it can’t be any shorter,” Cannavale said. “And there’s something about the ending of that movie and what it’s saying about mortality and how it stretches out at the end, particularly the last half-hour, that I found to be very affecting and very much felt like what death feels like. I just felt the weight of the end of that movie, and seeing those guys, so old, coming to the end of their lives, really landed with me, and I thought it needed to have that kind of length and scale. It tells a story that spans 40 years. You need the time, and Marty’s not really known for making short movies.”
Meanwhile, Ray Romano told THR that the movie “could’ve been another hour as far as I was concerned. Just go to the bathroom before it starts, and you’ll just get immersed in it. It has so much. It has what you would expect from a Marty Scorsese movie, and then more. It has this heart, this story, this conflict, this human-interest element to it that is more prevalent than any of his other movies, so there’s something there for everybody and something that will compel you and keep you there for three [hours] and 20 [minutes], and you won’t even feel it.”
As for Sebastian Maniscalco, he said he found the movie’s long runtime to be “refreshing.”
“I like a movie that extends and gives some time to breathe and has a long runway, rather than banging it out in an hour and a half or two hours,” he said. “Anything Martin Scorsese does, there’s a reason why it’s long, so I trust his judgment and I think it’s a nice movie to kind of sit and relax and have a nice discussion about afterwards.”
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