Ray Liotta Part Two
Ray on doing research, Detour Magazine April 1994. He might have taken it a bit too far though. While observing a procedure Ray passed out and fell on his face. He needed fifteen stitches and dental work on two chipped teeth.
Ray Liotta Part Two
Ray on doing research, Detour Magazine April 1994. He might have taken it a bit too far though. While observing a procedure Ray passed out and fell on his face. He needed fifteen stitches and dental work on two chipped teeth. |
He also starred in a short segment of Women and Men, a series of vignettes about relationships on HBO. He played a man in the 50's coping with an alcoholic wife (Andy MacDowell), and two small children in a time before Alcoholics Anonymous.
After two nice-guy roles he returned to a real bad guy in Unlawful Entry. He played Officer Pete Davis, an L.A.P.D. cop quite a few slices short of a loaf. He first befriends Kurt Russell and Madeline Stowe when their house is robbed. But Russell goes on a ride-along one night and sees how out of control Ray's character is when he viciously beats the man who broke in to Russell's house. This scene of a white L.A.P.D. officer beating a black man had to be cut because the film came out right after the Rodney King incident. Several L.A.P.D. officers were videotaped beating an unarmed black man and riots broke out when they were acquitted. The director toned down this scene as much as possible. "The whole point of the scene was to show how sick and crazy I am. Between the realistic way it was shot and the fact that it was a white cop and a black suspect, kind of
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