![]() ![]() To show up better on a black and white movie, the crew used Hershey’s chocolate was fake blood.Ħ. De Niro and Joe Pesci are really punching each other in the famous “hit me” scene.ĥ. The shot actually appears in the movie, when De Niro hits Pesci in the side and Pesci groans.Ĥ. De Niro accidentally broke Joe Pesci’s rib in a sparring scene. When he asked the real Vicki LaMotta if he was really like that, she replied, “You were worse.”ģ. ![]() When the real Jake LaMotta saw the movie he said that it made him realize for the first time what a terrible person he had been. When he was preparing for his role, Robert De Niro went through extensive physical training, then entered in 3 genuine Brooklyn boxing matches and won 2 of them.Ģ. Take a look below for 28 more fascinating and interesting facts about Raging Bull.ġ. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive and obsessive rage, sexual jealousy and animalistic appetite destroyed his relationship with his wife and family. ![]() It was a lot of fun to do.Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical black and white sports drama movie directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta’s memoir Raging Bull: My Story. And so that’s where we are and the script is being re-worked again. And I said, ‘Sure! Fine.’ So it’s been going through these kind of changes." When quizzed about what his character will be doing he continued, "Well, he’s helping the son of Charles Grodin he’s gotten himself in trouble. If somebody comes up with a great, great script, I’d read it and say, ‘Yeah, it’s great, I’ll think about it, consider it, sure." On Midnight Run 2 he spewed, "Somebody approached me, a young writer and he said how much he liked and he said, ‘I’m writing a sequel if you want to ’. When asked about the recently announced Raging Bull 2 he said, "Well, I don’t know about it (laughter). ![]() 's Mike Flemming also conducted a funny Q&A with De Niro and he answered some online questions as well as scribe queries. Robert De Niro's Tribecca Film Festival is in full swing, which means the normally reclusive and press shy legendary actor is being quizzed by journalists on his own upcoming projects as he's knocking about New York. ![]()
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