DANCING FOOL: A mob rat who once was close to John Gotti says that actor John Travolta isn’t tough enough to play the Gambino crime boss.
Lewis Kasman, the adopted mob rat son of Gambino Godfather John Gotti is known for a big mouth and very little credibility. Kasmam blabbed to the post that unmanly looking actor John Travolta who is starring in the upcoming Gotti movie is wrong for the part of a masculine mobster like the “Dapper Don”
by Bruce Golding , New York Post
A once-trusted associate of Gambino mob boss John Gotti is giving a thumbs-down to having John Travolta portray the late “Dapper Don” in an upcoming biopic.
Mob rat Lewis Kasman — whom Gotti once considered like an “adopted son” — told The Post that picking the “Pulp Fiction” star probably has the notorious Gambino crime-family godfather spinning in his grave.
“I think if he was asked, he would not be pleased at Travolta playing him,” said Kasman, who entered the witness-protection program after cutting a deal with the feds.
Speaking by phone from his current hiding spot, Kasman said that while Travolta is a “great actor,” the part should have gone to a “tougher guy.”
For John Gotti Sr., you need a man’s man to play that role,” Kasman said.
“John Gotti Sr. never danced a dance in his life,” he said, taking a jab at the “Saturday Night Fever” hoofer Travolta.
A better choice, he said, would have been “Godfather” veterans Robert De Niro or Al Pacino, who’s set to play a supporting role as Gambino family underboss Aniello “Neil” Dellacroce.
Kasman — whose undercover work for the feds helped him avoid an 11-year prison term — also said that “X-Men” star Ben Foster had been “miscast” as John “Junior” Gotti.
“He’s a thug, so you need someone who’s a thug . . . a guy who grew up in that life,” Kasman said of Junior, offering “The Fighter” star Mark Wahlberg as a better pick for the role.
He plans to time the publication of his memoir, “The Last Son,” to compete with the release of Junior’s movie, “Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father.”
Kasman maintains that the elder Gotti died “hating” Junior.
Kasman, who gave the eulogy at Gotti’s funeral, also said he’ll disclose the murderous mobster’s secret relationships with “the millionaires and billionaires of New York.”
Those movers-and-shakers allegedly include the late hotelier Leona Helmsley, with whom Kasman claims he was carrying on an affair when he arranged Junior’s lavish 1990 wedding read more Click here: Ex-associate says John Gotti “would not be pleased” with portrayal by John Travolta – NYPOST.com
