Joe Mantegna
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1,285 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
Joe Mantegna’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I listened to tapes, watched.
Well, I reached out to Dina Martin, his daughter, because what had happened was it had gotten around that Frank Sinatra's daughter, Tina, had wanted to co-produce the movie.
Right.
You know, with HBO.
Yeah.
And they didn't want her to, because first of all, they didn't necessarily want anybody in the family saying, well, now you can't say that, you can't do that.
So she was, from what I'd heard, she was a little bitter about that.
So she was like calling all members of the other families, like Dean's family, saying, we've got to boycott this movie, we've got to da-da-da-da.
And I felt so the opposite about the script and about how these men were being portrayed.
I knew somebody who knew Dina.
I said, can you get a message to her and let her know that Joe Mantegna was playing her father?
would invite her to the set if she wants to come and I'll let her read the script just to show her what respect I have for him.
And that started the relationship.
But one thing that stuck with me and was almost my key to playing him was I thought, for two hours I have to suspend people's belief that I'm not Joe and that I'm Dean Martin.
So how do you do that?
But there are millions of biopics, you do what you can do.
But I thought, the sound, what's that sound?
What does he sound like?
Because if I can get a little bit of the sound, and then I started to think, what does he sound like to me?
And then as a kid, I remember the Sugarcrisp commercials with the Sugar Bear.
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