So that was my interest and Marty had his reasons, and both of us just came together on the project. Robert De Niro’s Career in Five Artifacts The actor recently donated hundreds of boxes of scripts, props, notes and other objects from his work on Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and more. De Niro won the Best Actor Oscar for becoming boxer Jake ‘The Raging Bull’ LaMotta in 1981, topping his Best Supporting Actor win in 1975 for The Godfather: Part II as young Vito Corleone. "I thought I'd like to see if I could gain that weight. De Niro has earned four Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for his work in New York, New York (1977), opposite Liza Minnelli, Midnight Run (1988), Analyze This (1999) and Meet the Parents (2000). Robert De Niros Tribecca Film Festival is in full swing, which means the normally reclusive and press shy legendary actor is being quizzed by journalists. It was actually La Motta's weight gain that partially inspired him to take on "Raging Bull." "I thought the graphic difference of being out of shape then being a young fighter really was interesting," De Niro explained. De Niro was sent a copy of LaMotta’s 1970 memoir, Raging Bull: My Story, and became obsessed with starring in a movie about the former champ, who was then working as a bouncer in Manhattan. He received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980). Unsurprisingly, De Niro described "Raging Bull" as the toughest role he's had to prepare for during an appearance on The Hollywood Reporter's Actor Roundtable. RAGING BULL is director Martin Scorseses lacerating film biography of middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta, who was known during his brief reign as 'the Bronx Bull.' LaMotta (played with extraordinary brilliance by Robert De Niro) had early lessons in life: to steal and to fight. According to Head Stuff, De Niro rocketed up to 215 pounds which resulted in the actor suffering from breathing difficulties. This was during the period where production for "Raging Bull" moved from Los Angeles to New York, which is when De Niro was scheduled to shoot for "The Godfather Part II" in Italy (via CNN). De Niro did the same, and ended up gaining 60 pounds over the course of four months to achieve the desired goal. But in La Motta's decline, the boxer gained a considerable amount of weight.
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