PITTSBURGH — Sonny Vaccaro knows that Matt Damon looks nothing like an Italian kid from Trafford. But that doesn't mean he had any misgivings about Damon playing him in "Air," the feature film currently in theaters about how Vaccaro signed Michael Jordan to his first shoe deal at Nike.
"I am Italian-centric and Pittsburgh proud," Vaccaro, 83, told the Post-Gazette. "This is one time that I could use the imagination of the writer of the script.
"Would I have liked to have seen [the late] James Gandolfini or an Italian guy play me at one time? You can't get the whole cake, but I got a great piece of it in Matt Damon."
