The Irishman might be considered one of the best movies of 2019, but not every one of the over 26 million people who watched it are happy with what they saw. One of those very disgruntled viewers is Jack Goldsmith, who’s the real-life stepson of Chuckie O’Brien (played by Jesse Plemons in the film).
In the flick, O’Brien is depicted as Jimmy Hoffa’s loyal yet distant foster son who unwittingly becomes an accomplice in the notorious gangster’s murder. According to Goldsmith, however, their relationship was actually much more similar to the one that Hoffa and Frank Sheeran are shown as having.
In his own words:
“What Mr. Scorsese did, in effect, was to place Mr. Sheeran in Chuckie’s role in Mr. Hoffa’s life. It was Chuckie, not Mr. Sheeran, who for decades served as Mr. Hoffa’s “intimate companion, driver, bodyguard and special troubleshooter,” as the...
In the flick, O’Brien is depicted as Jimmy Hoffa’s loyal yet distant foster son who unwittingly becomes an accomplice in the notorious gangster’s murder. According to Goldsmith, however, their relationship was actually much more similar to the one that Hoffa and Frank Sheeran are shown as having.
In his own words:
“What Mr. Scorsese did, in effect, was to place Mr. Sheeran in Chuckie’s role in Mr. Hoffa’s life. It was Chuckie, not Mr. Sheeran, who for decades served as Mr. Hoffa’s “intimate companion, driver, bodyguard and special troubleshooter,” as the...
- 1/9/2020
- by Evan Lewis
- We Got This Covered
Love it or hate it, Martin Scorsese’s latest gangster epic, “The Irishman,” has got people talking. However, the latest talking point comes from the “hate it” camp, as the stepson of the real-life Chuckie O’Brien publicly called out Scorsese’s film on Friday.
In an editorial published in The New York Times, O’Brien’s stepson Jack Goldsmith wrote about the “devastating” effect that over 44 years of news articles, books, and films — with “The Irishman” serving as the most recent example — has had on his 86-year-old stepfather. Acknowledging that O’Brien “was the most intimate associate of Jimmy Hoffa,” Goldsmith wrote about how the FBI’s investigation of O’Brien — based on circumstantial evidence — led to him being ostracized from the Teamsters union, as well as the loss of friends, and how the FBI’s refusal to make the information that exonerated him public meant that “Chuckie’s innocence...
In an editorial published in The New York Times, O’Brien’s stepson Jack Goldsmith wrote about the “devastating” effect that over 44 years of news articles, books, and films — with “The Irishman” serving as the most recent example — has had on his 86-year-old stepfather. Acknowledging that O’Brien “was the most intimate associate of Jimmy Hoffa,” Goldsmith wrote about how the FBI’s investigation of O’Brien — based on circumstantial evidence — led to him being ostracized from the Teamsters union, as well as the loss of friends, and how the FBI’s refusal to make the information that exonerated him public meant that “Chuckie’s innocence...
- 1/4/2020
- by LaToya Ferguson
- Indiewire
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