for the most part kind of a nerd who reunites with some high school friends and they sort of fall in with the mob,” Stevens told EW last year. “I was really intrigued to work with Jackie Earle Haley. I was a big fan of his as an actor. I’d not worked with an actor-director before. John Travolta was really great. He didn’t come in as ‘big JT,’ he came in as a fellow actor wanting to see what we’re all up to and really got involved.”