![]() ![]() But perhaps De Niro wouldn’t have told him how, if he’d asked. What Gardner didn’t know was that De Niro would pile on 60lb for the scenes as an older, has-been LaMotta. So I come to the gym here – they rigged up a special one – and work out every day.’ He laughed, quietly. ‘I see so many fight movies where the actors are out of shape, I don’t believe them. ‘I gained about 20lb for Jake and I’m still puttin’ it on,’ De Niro eventually revealed. De Niro told him: ‘Aw, now, don’t ask questions.’ So they ‘sit around… without questions’. Over lunch Gardner asked him what got him interested in acting. Gardner caught up with De Niro again in New York, surprised to see he’d ‘radically changed his physiognomy and physique for his fourth Scorsese film, Raging Bull’. His eyes look out, but they also look in.’ A tough, conservative security guard (Robert De Niro) suffers a stroke during a bank robbery. As a nurse, I also thought that De Niro played the part of a stroke patient very realistically. Download or stream Flawless (1999) with Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller for free on hoopla. ![]() I loved what a good part that Philip Seymour Hoffman played as Rusty, the transvestite-I think he did a very good job of acting. His New York, New York co-star Liza Minnelli agreed: ‘There’s an intensity and mystery. It was nice to see Walter (De Niro) slowly loose his prejudices and discover that his perception of people were all wrong. Gardner argued that ‘personality stars’, such as Steve McQueen, would lose fans if they changed their image for each film, but that De Niro ‘changes roles without leaving footprints, without leaving a clue as to who they really are’. ‘Then I thought, what’s so important about where I went to school, and hobbies… what does any of that have to do with acting, with my own head? Nothing.’ ‘After my first movies, I gave interviews,’ he said, slouched in a chair in Scorsese’s office. ![]()
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