Last night, Martin Scorsese, 81, was a no-show at the Gotham Awards, even though there was a tribute to him and the film. This comes after the news that Scorsese had canceled an appearance at his beloved Marrakesh Film Festival.
According to Showbiz 411’s Roger Friedman, we need not worry. It turns out that Scorsese is “exhausted” because he’s been in Italy filming an acting part in Julian Schnabel’s “In the Hands of Dante.” The film stars Jason Momoa, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, Oscar Isaac, and Gal Gadot among others. It’s based on a book by Nick Tosches.
Scorsese has acted in movies before, most of his credits have been cameos in his own films. His most famous role is probably as the paranoid-aggressive passenger inside Travis Bickle’s cab in 1976’s “Taxi Driver.”
Enfant terrible of the 1980s art scene, Schnabel is the critically-acclaimed director of “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” and “Before Night Falls.” Schnabel hasn’t directed a film since 2018’s acclaimed Van Gogh biopic “At Eternity’s Gate.”