When asked about his role in the film, the 69-year-old Oscar winner had to start, and stop. “I don’t like to get emotional,” De Niro said with his voice cracking, according to the huffingtonpost.com.
Director of the film David O Russell confirmed that De Niro had related deeply to the movie, telling Couric that he had witnessed a strong visceral reaction from the actor after he read the script. “I realised he was having an emotional reaction and I sat there and watched Robert De Niro cry for 10 minutes and said, ‘Wow he’s really connecting with this material and this would be beautiful thing if it could work out, because I think his heart would be there’ and it is there.”
Published in The Express Tribune, February 7th, 2013.
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