Just another instance that shows how committed the legendary actor is to his craft. Amazingly, during the principal photography for Raging Bull, De Niro gained 27kg so that he could depict LaMotta’s later boxing career. Marty had his own reasons, and both of us just came together on the project.”ĭe Niro successfully gained the weight required to portray LaMotta in different phases of his life, which is why he claimed that the film was one of the hardest (yet most rewarding) that he had to prepare for.
“I thought, ‘I’d like to see if I could gain that weight and do it.’ That was my interest in it. ‘I made it as if this was the end of my life’: Scorsese on Raging Bull at 40 This article is more than 1 year old At a Tribeca film festival event, the director and his star Robert De Niro. “And I thought just the graphic difference of being out of shape and being a young fighter, that was interesting to me,” De Niro added. I said, ‘Jesus, look what happened to him from then to now.'” He’d be standing right out there, and I’d be on the sidewalk, and he was overweight and this and that. As he works his way towards his professional dream, his self-destructive behavior and. I remember I used to see Jake LaMotta he used to work in a kind of strip place right on 7th Avenue in the 1940s. Jake LaMotta ( Robert De Niro) is a boxer who has the potential to become the next middleweight champion. He said: “I kinda wanted to do a certain thing. De Niro had a particular biographical reason for wanting to portray LaMotta.
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