comedian and actor sebastian maniscalco wrote the film and stars in it and joins us now. salvo played by robert de niro is based on your dad, salvo, also a hairdresser. i am curious, did this film put a smile on your dad's face? >> oh, yeah. my father didn't really believe that de niro was going to play him in this. when i told him, he is like, yeah, right, i'll believe it when i see it. my dad had a phone call from bob and i wanted to hang out for a weekend so he could do script analysis with my dad. so my dad flew down to oklahoma and was teaching robert de niro how to, you know, speak italian. i was like, this is something that i never thought would be in the pipeline. i mean, i had de niro posters on my wall growing up, and here he is my dad teaching him how to be him and my dad asking me, am i getting paid for this? >> are you saying your dad didn't get paid for that? you didn't pay him? >> well, i mean, i, nobody paid him. i had to take it out of my till. so, yeah. it's been fun. i mean, it's been a wild ride. my parents, my mother and my father and -- are able -- y