Or as Stiller, who worked with De Niro in theMeet the Parentsfranchise coined De Niro-isms.
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!
Ben Stiller and David O. Russell attend the “Silver Linings Playbook” screening during the 2024 Tribeca FestivalGetty
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He said, Hey this is a serious scene!
This is a seven-page scene!
I said, Jesus, Bob, Im just blocking the scene.
He was preparing himself to be that enraged.
But he has that effect on people because hes Robert De Niro.
Released in 2012, the movie made over $236M worldwide.
Russell was given the pics source material, a Matthew Quick novel, by the late Sydney Pollack.
Russell added about working with De Niro: He was very meticulous in going over the script with us.
He made us go over the entire script with the cast together.
There were things that he asked about, things that he would change and would fix.
He memorized all of his dialogue.
