Gregory Scarpa
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Sep 13, 2026
Dan BurkeHOST
And special agent of the FBI, Wayne Strider, who's played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, is assigned by the FBI to investigate the murder of Vernon Dahmer.
Dan BurkeHOST
And he has teamed up with a mafia hitman turned FBI informant by the name of Gregory Scarpa, who is played by Mark Wahlberg.
Dan BurkeHOST
Now here's the unfortunate part about this film.
Dan BurkeHOST
Gregory Scarpa was a real person.
Dan BurkeHOST
He was a real mafia hitman and he did inform for the FBI.
Dan BurkeHOST
This movie would have been fascinating if the movie had just been about him and why the FBI chose him as an informant to investigate certain cases.
Dan BurkeHOST
Which leads me to believe, why wasn't this character just Lindley DiVecchio as opposed to this fictitious person who never existed? And I think that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II played this part well.
Dan BurkeHOST
And I already sung the praises of Giancarlo Esposito in his role.
JamesHOST
Greg.
JamesHOST
Greg Scarpa.
KeishaHOST
Yeah.
KeishaHOST
I had never heard of this guy before, but I love a guy who, you know, takes care of things by beating the shit out of people.
AshleyHOST
It's set in 1966 in Mississippi, and it follows a young black FBI agent played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.
AshleyHOST
And he is forced to work with a notorious mafia hitman named Gregory Scarpa, who's played by Mark Wahlberg.
AshleyHOST
And they're investigating the murder of a civil rights leader.
AshleyHOST
And this kind of uneasy partnership between them.
DanielleHOST
So basically, they're just the file room keepers.
ChristyHOST
Then you have Greg Scarpa.
ChristyHOST
And Greg Scarpa is this real-life crime family hitman.
ChristyHOST
And he becomes an FBI informant.
ChristyHOST
He's helped the FBI in Mississippi on a previous case.
ChristyHOST
And so they've called him in to work with Agent Strider in solving the case of the murder of Vernon Dahmer Sr., So, you know, you've kind of got this really crazy, odd couple working together.
ChristyHOST
And Greg Scarpa, I mean, he is full-on mafia hitman, you know, Tony Soprano type, you know,
DanielleHOST
kind of guy.
Tom AugustineHOST
And he teams up with...
Tom AugustineHOST
Gregory Scarpa, who's a Marflea hitman.
Tom AugustineHOST
Now, he's played by Mark Wahlberg in what appears to be some sort of make-up job, which makes him kind of look a little bit like Woody Harrelson, but I am quite interested to see what this actually turns out being like.
Tom AugustineHOST
Very, very kind of fraught period in history, as today is as well, so I feel like there might be some sort of overlap there.
CarlosHOST
Had a very interesting story where you have this young FBI agent that really wants to solve like all the civil rights related cases, like, you know, where you have emerging African-American like civil rights leaders and they're getting targeted.
CarlosHOST
And then he gets paired up with Gregory Scarpa, who was a real life mafia hitman based on true events.
CarlosHOST
And yeah, they're just, you know, This is kind of like I wouldn't when I say buddy cop
IsaacHOST
film,
Don MegaHOST
1960s Mississippi, a young Black FBI agent named Wayne Strider, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, is sent to investigate a wave of brutal killings targeting civil rights leaders.
Don MegaHOST
Forced to work alongside notorious mafa hit-- mafia hitman, Greg Scarpa, played by Mark Wahlberg, Strider finds himself pulled into a deadly hunt where the lines of justice and vengeance begin to blur.
Don MegaHOST
So this one here is based on a true story, and it's pretty, you know, straightforward here.
Don MegaHOST
Um, Yahya is one of the earliest Black FBI agents out there.
Don MegaHOST
So what do they do when things like that happen? They come, and they get Mark Wahlberg's character.
Don MegaHOST
That's right.
Don MegaHOST
He is a mafia hitman that kind of doubles down and works with the police when they need things to get done, hence the title of the movie, By Any Means, right? We're gonna crack some skulls.
Don MegaHOST
We're gonna do what we gotta do, and we're gonna make people talk, and that's what they do, man.
John LiviaHOST
There's other stuff on my other channel.
John LiviaHOST
But the other thing is, the guy that he portrays, Greg Scarpa, is from my old neighborhood.
John LiviaHOST
I...
John LiviaHOST
He li- literally-
JoeGUEST
[laughs]
John LiviaHOST
Um, uh, so basically what happened was this, this mob guy, he was very famous in Brooklyn, and he's from the same neighborhood as me, Bensonhurst.
John LiviaHOST
Um, his name is Greg Scarpa, and he was, uh, in the 1960s, he got arrested for armed robbery.
John LiviaHOST
And, uh, he actually made a deal with the FBI that he would give them information if, you know, and, and he wouldn't have to go to prison.
Danny BarrHOST
not? One character is.
Danny BarrHOST
Yeah, Scarpa.
Danny BarrHOST
Right.
Danny BarrHOST
Right.
Paul MarinoHOST
Oh, okay.
Paul MarinoHOST
So I thought it was a mafia movie.
Danny BarrHOST
No, it's about, it's basically, it's about Scarpa going to Mississippi.
Danny BarrHOST
He assisted the FBI on a bunch of stuff.
Dale SindenGUEST
He's investigates the murder of a civil rights leader, Vernon Dahmer, who was actually a friend of his.
Dale SindenGUEST
But the FBI, knowing they're not getting anywhere, anywhere, send down sort of like an unlikely p- uh, partner, uh, Gregory Scarpa, who was a real-life person, John.
Dale SindenGUEST
He's actually a nearly unrecognizable Mark Wahlberg, who was a mafia hitman turned FBI informant because, you know, the FBI, as I said, they can't...
Dale SindenGUEST
They have to do things by the book.
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