'Godfather' Star Gianni Russo Says Shame on Chris Cuomo's Fredo Meltdown

We got Gianni Russo — who played the treacherous, wife-beating Carlo in the OG ‘Godfather’ — and he tells us Chris made an ass out of himself, and his family, by flipping out over the insult … not to mention suggesting it was an ethnic slur against Italians.

Gianni says that’s nonsense … all Fredo means is that someone’s weak, there’s nothing else to it. He also says Chris’s dad, ex-Gov. Mario Cuomo, woulda smacked him over this.