With the release of this new list, it’s safe to say that New Jersey gives a lot of you-know-whats.
A New Jersey star has been crowned the king of f-bombs. Joe Pesci is the actor who has dropped the most f-bombs in his films. The New Jersey native topped the list, which was compiled by Crossword-Solver, a website that surveyed online scripts to find out how many times actors say “f—,” “s—” and “hell” in movies.
The survey, which looked at almost 3,000 scripts, found that Pesci said “f—” 272 times in those films, the most of any actor in the scripts. But, the even more interesting fact was that 241 of those f-bombs came from just one film, Casino.
Pesci was born in Newark and grew up in Belleville. He played Nicky Santoro in the 1995 movie, which was directed by Martin Scorsese, and co-starred Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone.
The actor won an Oscar in 1991 for playing Tommy DeVito in Scorsese’s Goodfellas and was nominated again for playing Russell Bufalino in Scorsese’s The Irishman in 2019.
Pesci is set to star on a forthcoming Peacock series Bupkis starring Pete Davidson and Edie Falco. He plays grandfather to Davidson’s character in the show, which is loosely based on the Saturday Night Live alum’s life.
Pesci is not the only New Jersey actor that made the list. Take a look at the full list actors who said the most f-bombs in their films below:
Please note: The survey of movie scripts was limited to those available online to the public, which means it did not include every film an actor has made.
Al Pacino
F-Bombs: 197 and 68 were from Donnie Brasco.
Jason Mewes (NJ Native)
F-Bombs: 183 and 138 of them were from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Jonah Hill
F-Bombs: 183 and 59 were from Get Him to the Greek.
Leonardo DiCaprio
F-Bombs: 144 and 96 of them were from The Wolf of Wall Street.
Seth Rogan
F-Bombs: 140 and 39 were from Pineapple Express.
Danny McBride
F-Bombs: 131 and 45 were from 30 Minutes or Less.
Ben Affleck
F-Bombs: 126 and 38 were from Good Will Hunting.
John Goodman
F-Bombs: 113 and 61 were from The Big Lebowski.
Jason Bateman
F-Bombs: 109 and 62 were from Bad Words.
Ryan Reynolds
F-Bombs: 104 and 77 were from The Change Up.
James Franco
F-Bombs: 103 and 83 were from Pineapple Express.
Billy Bob Thornton
F-Bombs: 94 and 84 of those were used for Bad Santa.
Robert De Niro
F-Bombs: 94 and 27 of those were used for The Comedian.
Edward Norton
F-Bombs: 93 and 49 were used for American History X.
George Clooney
F-Bombs: 87 and 51 were used for From Dusk Til Dawn.
Ian Roberts
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F-Bombs: 87 and all 87 of them were used in Hate Crime.
Shia Labeouf
F-Bombs: 86 and 75 were used for Honey Boy.
Brad Pitt
F-Bombs: 85 and 34 were used for Se7en.
Samuel L. Jackson
F-Bombs: 85 and 56 were used in Pulp Ficton.
Mark Wahlberg
F-Bombs: 84 and 37 were used in The Gambler.
Joaquin Phoenix
F-Bombs: 79 and 37 were used for We Own the Night.
Jason Lee
F-Bombs: 75 and 49 were used in Chasing Amy.
Matt Damon
F-Bombs: 75 and 30 were used in The Departed.
Steve Buscemi
F-Bombs: 74 and 43 were used in Reservoir Dogs.
