De Niro’s many collaborations withMartin Scorsese, in particular, have been especially lucrative for both parties.
However, the role De Niro is most synonymous with involved him working with another famous Italian.
Francis Ford Coppola’s celebrated"Godfather" trilogyis widely considered among the greatest gangster movies in history.
Aside from being a major moment for the actor, it was also a history-making victory.
De Niro explained, “That’s who I was playing.
It was almost like a technical exercise in some ways.
I was seeing what he did and how could I transfer that to the scenes that I had.”
Clearly, all that hard work really paid off in the end.
