Jack Neary, third from left, dressed in his “mobster black and grey” with the rest of the cast of ‘Black Mass’ on stage following the film’s premiere Tuesday at Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline. “We’re waiting for director Scott Cooper to introduce star Johnny Depp,” said Neary.
Does the bartender in the movie Black Mass, starring Johnny Depp as Boston mobster and FBI informant James “Whitey” Bulger, look familiar?
He should, since he’s none other than Lowell’s own Jack Neary, the playwright/actor/director and co-founder/producer of Greater Lowell Music Theatre.
At Tuesday’s premiere at Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, he learned that his scenes and line made it into the Scott Cooper-directed movie that opens nationally today.
“My line is ‘Jimmy…sorry to bother you…we got trouble outside,’ “ Neary notes on a Facebook post. “We shot it about 37 times. Half my face and the whole line made it into the movie. I’m also tending bar in a couple of other scenes.”
Neary filmed with Depp during production in Boston last year. But, in his usual low-key way, he didn’t say much about it, since he knew his scenes could be cut during final editing.
He was also surprised to be called on stage at the premiere, where Cooper introduced the cast and stars Depp and Dakota Johnson.
Black Mass isn’t Neary’s first major Hollywood film made in Boston. He played one of two guys robbed at Fenway Park in a pivotal scene of 2010’s The Town, directed by and starring Ben Affleck.
But, typical of Neary, he doesn’t let his brushes with the stars phase him.
Black Mass is a good film, he said. And Depp’s performance is “superb.”
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