Word: niro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bankable Commodity. Many actors would be crushed at such a lack of response. De Niro gets edgy when it goes the other way. "I feel uncomfortable at parties when people look at me," he told TIME Correspondent Jean Vallely. And growing numbers of people these days are looking at him and for him. In tandem with the release of New York, New York, De Niro (disguised as Saxophonist Jimmy Doyle) appeared on the covers of a couple of national magazines. This blitz may not have blown De Niro's cover, but Doyle had better be careful when he goes...
...Niro means "busy" as in "workaholic." Well before shooting The Deer Hunter, he was doing roadwork and punching bags in preparation for his role in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, a film about Fighter Jake La Motta to be shot next year. For The Deer Hunter, the story of a friendship among five steelworkers that is interrupted by the Viet Nam War, he spent six weeks tramping about in the Ohio River Valley, talking with mill hands and recording their speech patterns, drinking with them in bars and eating dinner in their homes. If it were possible, De Niro...
Obsessive Labor. There may be a touch of madness in this method, but De Niro has never really tried any other. Given the results, he would obviously be crazy to stop now. The son of two Greenwich Village artists, De Niro was only 16 when he snared his first serious acting jobs. Some 14 lean years and much obsessive labor followed before he gained wide recognition in Bang the Drum Slowly. Only two years later, in 1975, he won an Academy Award for his role as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II. "I wasn't what...
...Niro says, looking back on his apprenticeship. "I wasn't snatched up for certain roles in movies. Therefore I had to work harder...
Having arrived, in De Niro's view, means the chance to work harder still...