hear me out!!!


I don't think any breathing actor could have given a more nuanced and powerful interpretation of the role.

However....Bobby D playing a "full blooded" Irishman doesn't ring true.

In GF...Robert Duvall played the irishman( dutch german...but to them(italian mobsters)...that means Irish)and he visually stood out because of his non southern italian features. He literally looked like an outsider..and there's running theme in the novel about his main shortcoming being that he wasn't Sicilian.


I was reading some comments recently about Jimmy's character being fully accepted by the mob but not eligible for being made because he wasn't Italian. It took the second time watching the film to actually catch that Conway was full Irish. I was puzzled in the first scene where Jimmy is introduced..."Irishman here to take money"..I thought that was slang saying or something.


I know that Bobby actually Italian and Irish ancestry...but phenotype is southern Italian....made more obvious in a film filled with people of similar phenotype.He fits in.