Ben Stiller & David O. Russell Exchange On-Set “‘Raging Bull’-Level” & “De Niro-ism” Stories At Tribeca Film Festival
deadline.comTribeca Film Festival‘s ode to its 2x Oscar winning co-founder Robert De Niro –De Niro Con– continued Friday night with a screening of Silver Linings Playbook with that pic’s filmmaker David O.
Russell and Ben Stiller sharing their candid experiences working with the Stella Adler trained actor. Or as Stiller, who worked with De Niro in the Meet the Parents franchise coined ‘De Niro-isms.’ When it came to harnessing the hot boiled emotion in a pinnacle dramatic scene where Jennifer Lawrence’s Tiffany Maxwell has it out with De Niro’s Pat Sr (the angry father of Bradley Cooper‘s Pat) after he accuses her of casting bad luck upon his prized football team, the Philadelphia Eagles, Russell says that the Goodfellas actor arrived onset already a raging bull. “I’ll never forget the day of the big explosion when it was Jennifer vs.
Bob with Bradley in the middle. It was a big scene and I was blocking it because Bob was unexpectedly a little late, which is not like him.
So, I started to do this scene because everybody was there. Bob walked in and carried the energy of the scene: He yelled at me!
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