Having made five sports films, what, in your mind, are the keys to making a good one? Even the music, the slow-motion running - that I remember.
I liked the running film, the British film.Ĭhariots of Fire, yeah. What's your favorite sports film, as a moviegoer? Even when he dismisses a question that doesn't interest him, he'll do so with his disarming smile-grimace, AKA the Robert De Niro Face. Still, much to my delight, the topic appears to bring out the best in the fiercely guarded actor, who has a history of, shall we say, sparsely worded interviews. The boxing film is De Niro's third and his fifth entry, overall, in a quietly prolific sports filmography that includes the Martin Scorsese-classic Raging Bull and dates so far back, the two-time Academy Award winner and seven-time nominee whiffs at recalling the list.
Visible just beyond De Niro's silver mane is a wall-wide bookshelf chock-full of keepsakes from his five-decade-career in Hollywood, including a baseball bat that looks exactly like the one he used as Al Capone in The Untouchables. On the opposite end of the room sits a desk canvased with piles of unproduced screenplays, proof that this lifelong New Yorker, 72, has no intention of fading to black.ĭe Niro's next film, due August 26, is Hands of Stone, an Oscar-ready biopic on Roberto Duran starring Edgar Ramirez (Bodhi in the Point Break remake) as the Panamanian pugilist and my host as legendary trainer Ray Arcel. I, of course, claim the couch, because when you gain entry into the private workspace of America's greatest-and quite possibly most intimidating-living screen actor, you pretty much do as you're told. "Or wherever you're most comfortable," he adds, referring to the surfeit of seating options before us.
Robert De Niro slumps into a loveseat in his eighth floor office in lower Manhattan and directs his guest to the adjoining couch. This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's September 5 NFL Preview Issue. Robert De Niro on his sports films, from Raging Bull to Hands of Stone You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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