Chazz Palminteri has been forged within the upcoming second season of the Amazon collection “Gravesend” — and he’s following within the footsteps of one in all his kids.
The Oscar nominee’s daughter, Gabriella Palminteri, can also be a star within the ’80s-set mob drama created by William DeMeo.
DeMeo, 50, completely tells Web page Six that Gabriella, 20, was truly forged within the present earlier than her well-known father, 69.
“She’s actually, actually good,” he says of Gabriella’s appearing. “She obtained the position on her personal, primarily based on how nice her appearing was. I feel she’s a future star. … She actually goes to be a giant star down the street.”
DeMeo provides, “We auditioned lots of people for her position, and we added her father afterward. She auditioned and received the position.”
Gabriella’s credit additionally embody an look on “Blue Bloods,” and she or he starred in a musical adaptation of her father’s famed “A Bronx Story” at a Westchester theater as highschool pupil.
DeMeo’s first movie position was in Chazz’s 1993 drama “A Bronx Story.”
“My first half occurred on Chazz’s movie. As a result of of Chazz’s film, all of it comes full circle,” DeMeo muses.
Chazz performs a household crime boss, Cesar Tremaldo, in “Gravesend.” Gabriella stars because the daughter of a personality named “Loopy Chris,” performed by James Russo. Sofia Milos, a veteran of “The Sopranos” and “CSI: Miami,” performs Gabriella’s mom, Tina Telva.
The present additionally stars DeMeo, William Forsyth, Andrew “Cube” Clay, Fran Drescher, Armand Assante, Chuck Zito, Martin Kove and “Intercourse and the Metropolis” comedian Mario Cantone.
Vincent Pastore and Tony Darrow have been added to the forged for Season 2, and we hear that former nightclub doorman and Web page Six fixture-turned-actor Wass Stevens additionally seems within the New York-based collection.
Gabriella isn’t the one notable offspring on the present both: Ralph Macchio’s daughter, Julia Macchio — who has appeared in “Cobra Kai” — can also be a star, as is DeMeo’s son, Cristian DeMeo. DeMeo proudly factors out that the up-and-coming forged members have all made the reduce on their very own benefit.
DeMeo additionally says that with Chazz on the present: “I’ve individuals which have been within the greatest mob films ever, ‘A Bronx Story,’ ‘Goodfellas,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘As soon as Upon a Time in America,’ the ‘Gotti’ film.”
We beforehand reported how Drescher, 64, stopped Brooklyn visitors whereas filming the present in Bensonhurst.
Final fall, the “Gravesend” forged and crew turned real-life heroes once they rescued a 14-year-old boy who’d been pinned underneath a Chevrolet sedan a block from the place the collection was filming on the time.
Folks journal reported {that a} lady had misplaced management of her automobile, in keeping with a police report, on the intersection of West 2nd Road and Avenue X, and when she rear-ended a parked Toyota SUV, the teenager wound up pinned underneath her automobile.
When the forged discovered of the harmful incident, they headed to the scene, and DeMeo advised CBS New York that he comforted the sufferer.
“I used to be like, ‘You’re high quality, buddy, you’re gonna be OK,’” he stated.
Members of the present then lifted the automobile off the lad, and DeMeo advised NBC New York on the time, “We had been somewhat nervous as a result of we had been afraid if we carry it and God forbid it falls on him or if it’s hooked up to part of his physique.”
However the teen was efficiently transported to a close-by hospital in steady situation, police reportedly stated.
Chazz — who has been married to Gianna Ranaudo since 1992 — additionally has a son, Dante, who has appeared within the collection “Godfather of Harlem” together with his dad.
Chazz posted an clip to Instagram of the pair on the set with the caption, “My son Dante and I on the set of Godfather Of Harlem. He’s enjoying Gilberto my driver, It’s the primary time we ever labored collectively.”
