A few years ago when PEOPLE did a "Where are they now" segment, Gianni Russo stated that although many punches were "stopped short", many also did land. Russo felt some tension with James Caan and felt that JC was not pulling his punches at times, and had some bruises because of it. There was another story of how much Russo was disliked by Caan and Duvall. It seemed that Russo was trying to be like Carlo Rizzi in his attention to the female staffers and workers on the set, acting like he was God's gift to women. A poor actor, Russo made many other minor appearances in movies (Brando actually got him a small part as the M'Aitre D in THE FRESHMAN.) He also played a small time hood in the Steven Seagall movie OUT FOR JUSTICE. After the sucess of Godfather, Russo felt that he would be the next big leading man with his Italo good looks, but his true acting skills came out and directors saw his limited talent, and he has been relegated to small one time screen appearanced in movies