Irish man is based on the true story of Frank Sherrill a truck driver turned hitman for philadelphia mobster russell buffalo. Played by joe pesci. Put him on a fall 8 ok pepsis character once sheerin played by Robert De Niro to take out the powerful union leader jimmy hoffa played by pitino. Well good to meet you too even if its over the phone the irish man is a milestone in movie history the 1st time ever that the great Italian American actors have all teamed up together with the great Italian American director Martin Scorsese. Its like being a tight. End you dont get up there you know you havent met with Martin Scorsese and so you take chances which are like you know about these movies or they have a time when i come out 15 years in the making a lot of that is getting the scripts right getting the act is getting everybody available and then it got to a point where we we took so long with our schedules doing other films and other commitments that by the time we got to do it they could