RAY ROMANO DISCUSSES HIS FEAR OF DIRECTING

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The film depicts Leo Russo,an Italian-American father who assists in the running of his family’s construction firm,

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Leo takes drastic and dubious methods to get his son back on track, but he eventually begins to wonder why he’s doing it

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Romano, 64, had been really nervous about taking his first steps behind the camera and was relieved

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I couldn’t handle it. “I can’t do it,” I informed my agency on Day 3

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Romano got directing tips from his “Get Shorty” co-star Davey Holmes and late-night host James Corden

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Romano’s suspicions were misplaced, as Metcalf, 66, praised him for the first time since her Oscar-nominated performance in “Lady Bird”

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“She learned how to keep me preoccupied from my wife.”

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