De Niro Donates Scripts
The New York taxi driver's licence used to prepare for the part of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver and two leather jackets, one with bullet holes, worn in the movie Ronin are among some 3,000 items from Robert De Niro's film career that he has donated to a Texas university.
The New York taxi driver's licence used to prepare for the part of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver and two leather jackets, one with bullet holes, worn in the movie Ronin are among some 3,000 items from Robert De Niro's film career that he has donated to a Texas university.
"He does a lot of research about his character for every film, so you can really get inside his head," said Alicia Dietrich of the Harry Ransom humanities research centre at the University of Texas in Austin yesterday.
She said notebooks and marked scripts gave a unique insight into how an actor prepared for his roles. Correspondence between De Niro and directors such as Martin Scorsese and Elia Kazan will be available to students and researchers.
"He does a lot of research about his character for every film, so you can really get inside his head," said Alicia Dietrich of the Harry Ransom humanities research centre at the University of Texas in Austin yesterday.
She said notebooks and marked scripts gave a unique insight into how an actor prepared for his roles. Correspondence between De Niro and directors such as Martin Scorsese and Elia Kazan will be available to students and researchers.
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