Ray Liotta On Brad Pitt, 'Killing Them Softly'

Ray Liotta has been a staple in feature films for the past 30 years. His next major role comes in the highly-anticipated Killing Them Softly, in which he plays Markie Trattman, a shady figure who runs a high-stakes gambling scene. Killing Them Softly also stars Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini and Sam Shepherd. It has been widely praised by critics and was in the competition for the Palm d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where he spoke to Uinterview about the role.



Liotta, 57, was born in Newark, N.J., and adopted by Alfred and Mary Liotta. He attended Union High School in Union, N.J., and upon graduation he studied acting at the University of Miami. Liotta’s career kicked off when he landed the role of Joey Perrini on the soap opera Another World, and a few years later, he struck gold with a string of popular films, beginning with 1986’s Something Wild, in which he played Ray Sinclair, an ex-convict, alongside Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith. Liotta followed up his a Golden Globe-nominated performance shortly thereafter with the role of Shoeless Joe Jackson in the critically and commercially successful Field of Dreams, which also starred Kevin Costner. Although perhaps Liotta’s most famous role came next, when he played the mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film Goodfellas alongside Robert Deniro and Joe Pesci. Since that time Liotta has built a reputation as both a lead and character actor, appearing in the films Heartbreakers, Narc, John Q and Smokin’ Aces, to name just a few.


In Killing Them Softly, Liotta is on the receiving end of many beatings. "I kind of liked the beating scene," he told Uinterview exclusively. "Just because of what I had to do and I think I pulled it off because it’s really brutal. It’s really violent and ugly and harsh and talk about using your imagination because they never touched me, 90 percent of the time they’re a foot or two away from me, so it was more pulling that off in a believable manner."

He can next be seen in the upcoming film The Iceman, in which he plays crime lord Roy DeMeo.

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