Overview
- The five-part documentary is streaming on Apple TV+ after its October 17 release.
- The series features new interviews with longtime collaborators and admirers including Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Jodie Foster, Sharon Stone, and Mick Jagger.
- Scorsese notes in the film that Pesci’s exposure to the criminal underworld in Newark informed his ability to play gangsters convincingly.
- An iconic Goodfellas exchange grew from an improvisation based on something Pesci witnessed, according to Miller’s account.
- Miller describes the docuseries as frank about Scorsese’s life, touching on his temper, drug struggles, and near‑fatal overdose.