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...project that promised to be just the ticket: The Score, a crime flick that opens this week. And he didn't just get a cast, he got a Mount Rushmore of actors: Marlon Brando as Max, an elderly homosexual crook orchestrating the biggest heist of his career; Robert De Niro as an aging thief ready to retire from his life of crime; and Edward Norton as a smart young punk eager to begin...
...Niro, 57, who signed on first for $15 million, admits to having "second thoughts" about the script from the very beginning. Although Danny Taylor--the first of several scribes to work on the film--had written it as a breezy caper, Oz assured De Niro that it would be rewritten as a more character-driven piece. Oz got the 77-year-old Brando on board, paying him about $3 million for three weeks of work, after a couple of meetings at the actor's home. And Norton, 31, says he joined the cast simply because "if someone called...
...ensuing battle of wills, Brando would refuse to come to the set if Oz was present. De Niro had to direct Brando's big emotional scene, while Oz watched the action on an off-site monitor and sent instructions to De Niro via an assistant director. When they were in the same room, Brando also jabbed at Oz by calling him Miss Piggy and telling him, "I bet you wish I was a puppet so you could stick your hand up my a__ and make me do what you want." Still, Oz gave Brando plenty of freedom...
...Niro and Norton also contributed their creative ideas. Unhappy with the film's heist scenes, De Niro recruited a technical consultant--a friend with a shady past who knew about cracking safes and such--to show the screenwriters how it should be done. "There's no point in doing it if there's no authenticity," says De Niro, whose character now blows the door off a safe the way a professional would--from the inside out, by pumping it full of water...
...Robert De Niro puts on more than 60 lbs. for his role in Raging Bull and is heralded for his massive weight gain...