USALenny Montana easily plays Luca Brasi, the mafia boss's minions, in the classic movie "Godfather" because he has experience.

In fact, the former Montana wrestler originally appeared on set as a bodyguard for a mafia member.

Montana was born in 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, into an Italian-American family and is fluent in both languages. In the 20-30s, Montana has a successful professional wrestling career and won many awards.

In the late 1960s, Montana retired from wrestling, returned to Brooklyn and joined the Colombo Family, one of the five mafia families that dominated the New York underworld. Montana is a fireman and henchman who specializes in violent incidents. He often boasted about his ruthless tricks like soaking a tampon in a kerosene, tying it to a rat's tail, lighting a fire and dropping the mouse inside the building or placing a candle in front of a daisies clock. cu so when the bird in the watch pops out, the candle will fall down and catch fire.

Montana was once in prison at Rikers Island Prison. After being released, Montana became a bodyguard for many senior members of the Colombo Family.

In 1971, director Francis Ford Coppola wanted to film a film adapted from the classic novel "Godfather" by Mario Puzo, about the Italian-American mafia family Corleone. However, the film was strongly opposed by the Colombo Family. Producer Al Ruddy finally accepted their request to cut the mafia off the script and allow the Italian American Civil Rights political group, on behalf of many Colombo Family members, to join the production. movie production. This means that many mafia members are at the studio to monitor.

Montana is the bodyguard of one of these people. Impressed by Montana's burly appearance (1.98 m tall and 145 kg weight), Coppola quickly invited him to play Luca Brasi, the assassin working for Don Corleone - the boss of the Corleone Family, after the cast This lead role died of a stroke.

Montana is very generous with the film crew. When he noticed that Bettye McCartt, Ruddy's assistant, had a broken watch, he gave her an old diamond-mounted watch wrapped in a tissue. However, he told her "not to wear watches in Florida".

Despite being a cruel criminal, Montana is very stressed when acting with idol Marlon Brando, a veteran actor playing Don Corleone. When preparing to film the scene Luca Brasi congratulated Don on his daughter's upcoming wedding, Montana sat outside, anxiously holding a piece of paper to write a script to review before facing the star. Coppola decided to put this action in the script: in the movie there is a scene where the character Brasi practices a saying to congratulate Don "I hope their first child will be a strong child".

The movie "Godfather", released in 1972, is considered one of the best films in film history. Luca Brasi does not have much screen time but many of his scenes leave a lasting impression.

In the film Brasi died when Don Corleone was sent on a mission to infiltrate inside the enemy, by pretending to betray Corleone to ask to join his opponent Virgil Sollozzo.

Brasi then wore a bulletproof vest to a meeting of Sollozzo. Sollozzo offered Brasi $ 50,000 in exchange for loyalty but then pulled a knife into Brasi's hand. From behind, a strangler strangled Brasi. Viewers can hardly forget the image of Brasi glaring, her neck shaking in the last moment of life.

Sollozzo then sends a message to the Corleone Family: a fish wrapped in Brasi bulletproof vests. This message means "Luca Brasi has rest with the fish".

After the film "Godfather," Montana continued to be "chosen to send gold" by filmmakers. He has appeared in more than a dozen movie and television roles, almost always playing a villain or assassin, including the movie Battle Creek Brawl with Jackie Chan. Montana died of a heart attack in New York in 1992 at the age of 66.