He even took color slides of some of the paintings and brought them back to the States. As soon as De Niro became a movie star, he reputedly bought both of his parents spacious lofts. Neither has ever remarried. They remain close friends, and they see a great deal of their only child. Eventually the movie was screened as evidence for a jury as it sat in judgment on Hinckley. He also gets very upset if people say anything about his friend John Belushi. After the great comic died of cocaine-and-heroin poisoning in March , De Niro broke down in sobs.
I directed him in every scene. Almost everybody fell ill with dysentery, except Bob. He takes terrific care of his body. He also spent hours with Daniel Berrigan, the maverick Jesuit priest, who was a consultant on the film.
He had a floor plan laid out in his living room and everything. He was meticulous. And very patient with Ralph Macchio, who was his son in the show and had never been onstage before. I thought of Bob as our leader. Like when we were invited to play for the prisoners on Rikers Island, Bob called a meeting of the entire cast in his dressing room to discuss it; same with when we moved the production from the Public Theater to Broadway.
She recalls that last year when she was teaching a class at the Actors Studio, De Niro was there one day standing beside a pillar and nobody recognized him. He eventually slithered away. I have known Bob De Niro for over twenty years.
Just say we are close, close friends. Bobby used to be there , you know what I mean? He used to talk, give opinions, laugh. He was so sweet. Makes me sad. Bobby was around nineteen—skinny, very gentle, dark watchful eyes.
He had very little money and he rode around town on a rickety bike. He played a wide variety of roles. Totally different in each part. Winters subsequently began taking De Niro around with her to parties and introducing him to her friends, and she arranged for him to be an observer at the Actors Studio. We would go at each other, have knockdown fights—kitchen-sink-drama-style. It was like going into a costume room backstage of a theater. He had every conceivable kind of getup imaginable—and the hats!
Derbies, straw hats, caps, homburgs. He was totally focused on his work. Force of will. Kirkland would talk to De Niro for hours about her hopes and dreams, and still does. Hold something back. Be mysterious. De Niro holds back.
He is a deeply private person who rarely shows emotion. Shelley Winters recalls once when he did. He walked into my bedroom and pounded the headboard with his fist. He could be equally intense when he wanted a part. During the mid-sixties he auditioned for Brian De Palma, then a struggling young film director.
Then he asked if he could do something else for me, and I said sure. He went outside to prepare; he took a long, long time. Then he burst into the room and performed the rabble-rousing monologue from Waiting for Lefty. He was absolutely sensational. In the latter two he played a young voyeur who becomes a demoralized Vietnam vet and falls into pornography and urban warfare.
His salary for each film was fifty dollars. He and De Palma became friends. We were always looking for projects to do. But if anybody could do it, it would be Bobby. Oddly enough, the roles he was starting to play Off Broadway were nonstop talkers.
De Niro was supposed to chop a board in half in the play, so he studied karate until he could perform the feat nightly. Earlier, Winters had got him cast in the movie Bloody Mama , about the legendary criminal Ma Barker and her four psychopathic sons, who terrorized the South during the s.
De Niro was Lloyd Barker, a sadistic, morphine-addicted killer who eventually dies of an overdose. Get into character. He is a wizard, though. He can blush or turn white like that! But he broke out in sores. Just to look like an addict. Oh, and he almost got us killed. In one scene he had to drive us in this car. The cameras roll. Why would I know how to drive? Afterward Roger Corman wanted to shoot another take, but I took him aside and explained that if we did he might lose two important members of the cast.
She and De Niro were linked romantically then, although she now denies it. Listen, he needed to be taken care of. Yeah, I guess Bobby looked up to me in those days. I was with him a lot and with his girlfriend Diahnne Abbott, who he later married.
We spent wonderful weekends together. I remember we used to lug big bags of cracked crab and iced white wine out to this funky beach—we called it Doggy Beach—out in California.
I had a shack there aside from my apartment in Beverly Hills, and my daughter, Victoria, was with me. She was very little then. I used to feed hordes of actors. This was around the time of The Godfather. In the film he spoke only eight words of English. He reportedly shocked Godfather director Francis Coppola by hammering questions about the character at him all during the shooting. It was like a mathematical problem. Brand Solutions. Video series featuring innovators.
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