The duo has collaborated on several successful films – and the most recent is Killers of the Flower Moon
One of the greatest duos in the history of Hollywood, Martin Scorsese It is Robert De Niro They are good friends off-screen and have known each other for 50 years. Now, the director has reflected on his relationship with the actor, with whom he has collaborated on films such as Taxi Driver – Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980) and Flower Moon Assassins (2023).
In an interview with Stephen Colbert (via People) at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Scorsese He took the opportunity to talk a little about his friend. “I said at his 80th birthday party that we allowed ourselves about 60 seconds in Cannes,” he stated. “At night after the movie a few months ago, we had some champagne and lay back, and the pool was down there, and the hotel we were in was really beautiful.”
“There were spotlights, and the sky, and the stars. And he looked at me, sat back and said, ‘Would you believe, in 50 years, where we will be?'” the director continued. “He couldn’t believe it. He said, ‘Let’s have a drink.’
He had a strange confidence. But I think somehow we discovered that we felt very similar about our situation.
Right away, Martin Scorsese revealed the importance of Robert De Niro for the existence of Raging Bull. Before filming, the filmmaker was in an “absolutely crazy time” and “almost didn’t make it out alive, but finally De Niro arrived at the hospital and said to me: ‘Come on, Marty.'”
“When this happened, I did Taxi DriverIt is New York, New York (1977) unfortunately didn’t do well, and I found it very difficult to figure out if I could ever get excited about making a movie again, and I started becoming depressed and going through all kinds of problems, and eventually I almost basically died,” he said. Then, De Niro “kept pushing” for the 1980 film to get off the ground. Clear, Scorsese gives the actor credit for that to this day.
Source: Rollingstone
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