Almost four decades before Netflix's TheIrishman, the trio of Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci first came together to make 1980's 'Raging Bull'
While the prospects for a black-and-white movie about a washed-up boxer who beats his wife seemed bleak, the gem earned eight Oscar nominations, with De Niro winning for best actor and Thelma Schoonmaker for editing., the trio of Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci first came together to make 1980'sIt was an intense time for Scorsese. The director and De Niro were coming off the musical dramafor United Artists, which was stressed from the over-budgetin production.
One person who owes her career to the trio was Cathy Moriarty, who received an Oscar nom for supporting actress. "I can't say enough about how much they helped me," she says. Moriarty was 17, living in the Bronx and completely unaware that a bicoastal search was going on for an actress who "must be blonde and have excellent figure. No regional accents except New York."
Moriarty says the best advice she received was from De Niro. "He said the most important thing for an actor was to listen. That really stuck with me." She still regrets taking off for Europe the day the Oscar nominations were announced. "I was 17. What did I know?" This story first appeared in a December stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,
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