Charlie Day says his ‘greatest remorse’ is that Ray Liotta died before seeing their new film hit theaters

Charlie Day needs Ray Liotta have been nonetheless alive to see their upcoming film, Fool’s Paradise, hit theaters.

“My biggest regret is that Ray is not going to get to see the audience see him,” Day shared throughout a new interview with Willie Geist for Sunday TODAY. The Goodfellas legend, 67, died in his sleep whereas visiting the Dominican Republic in May 2022, as reported by Yahoo Entertainment.

Day, who rose to stardom within the FX comedy collection It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, went on to elucidate that Liotta would continuously attain out to him after manufacturing to search out out when the film, directed by Day and likewise starring Jason Sudeikis and Jason Bateman, would lastly head to theaters.

“Ray would text me every three months like, ‘Hey, man, what’s going on with that movie we did? When is it getting out?’ And I would say, ‘Ray, I’m so sorry. I’m stuck back doing It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I have to deliver this season and as soon as I wrap, I’m going to get back into the editing room, so everything’s on hold,'” Day stated, noting that Liotta fortunately was in a position to see the film through the post-production interval, and continuously supplied to assist with re-shoots and different edits. The film is now set to reach in theaters on May 12.

Day, who additionally seems in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, went on to reward Liotta’s efficiency within the comedy, wherein he performs a robust Hollywood producer. Liotta even pitched jokes that finally ended up within the script.

“He delivers a performance that is, in my mind. I won’t say it’s Goodfellas good, but it’s Ray Liotta good. It’s up to his standards of what he can do well,” Day advised Geist, calling Liotta’s comedic chops humorous “without being over the top.” “He was just a really driven, committed, serious-about-his-craft guy, and I feel lucky he’s in the movie.”

Day is not the one director to reward Liotta’s latest work. Back in February, actor-turned-filmmaker Elizabeth Banks spoke about working with Liotta on Cocaine Bear, sharing with Yahoo Entertainment that she was “just so grateful that he blessed this movie that he trusted me as a director.”

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“I’m a female director. I wanted to make a big [movie that] has a lot of action and CGI, and it’s a very muscular, masculine kind of a project. And I’ve been told by people in Hollywood, ‘I don’t know if you can direct those things because I don’t know if male actors will follow you.’ And I say to that, ‘When Henry Hill [Liotta’s Goodfellas character] follows you, you can make anything you want.’ So that was the gift that Ray gave to me. He gave me the confidence to know that I can direct anybody doing anything,” Banks shared.

Soon after his dying, Liotta’s fiancée Jacy Nittolo shared on social media concerning the shock of his sudden loss.

“No words to properly describe what one goes through with this type of unexpected loss,” she wrote, captioning a collection of photographs of the duo together with their household. “I miss him every second of every day. Each day my hint of some light is being with our children — Dax, Karsen, Chazz, Jade & Joey.”

Liotta acquired a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 9 months after his dying.