![]() ![]() 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. Boxing legend Jake LaMotta, whom Robert De Niro portrayed in the film Raging Bull, died September 19, 2017, in Miami, at the age of 95, according to The New York Times. 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. The ring is a great place for LaMotta to express his anger, but that anger follows him home and drives away everybody he ever cared about. “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. De Niro won a much-deserved Best Actor award at the Oscars for his raw, warts-and-all, painfully honest portrayal of boxer Jake LaMotta’s foibles. 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. 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. 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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