When an Actor Is Too Good at His Job - Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro is one of the best actors. With a career full of iconic performances such as Vito Corleone in the Godfather Part 2, Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver and Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, there aren't many who can compete with him. Add to this his two Oscar wins, and lengthy filmography spanning almost 60 years and it's easy to see why he's one of the greats. Sure he's taken lighter roles recently, but after decades of putting out intense performances because of his method acting he has earned the break.

So we'll be exploring his entire career, focusing more on his three most impactful decades, and delve into all the moments where he truly lost himself in his roles. Moments like driving taxis for 15-hour shifts, paying to get his teeth ruined, and even gaining 60 pounds (27 kg) for his roles. With a portfolio of over 100 films, we aim to highlight the peaks of De Niro's career without overlooking the occasional lows.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:57 - Early Life / Career
04:17 - Breakthrough with Method Acting (70s)
08:20 - One of the Best (80s)
12:35 - Playing it Safe (90s)
16:59 - His Worst Decade
18:15 - Comeback

Robert De Niro. Best Actor. Taxi Driver. The Godfather Part 2. Joker. Goodfellas. Killers of the Flower Moon. Cape Fear. Martin Scorsese. The Irishman. Heat. Al Pacino. Raging Bull. Casino. King of Comedy. Once Upon a Time in America. The Deer Hunter. Brazil. Leonardo DiCaprio. Meet the Parents. The Untouchables. Mean Streets. Midnight Run. A Bronx Tale. Silver Linings Playbook. All Time Greats. Method Acting. Marlon Brando.

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[GetHairy]

Taxi Driver is one of the most hypnotic movies I have ever seen.
It doesn't even seem like acting.

[JK_Clark]

He's been easily one of the best actors of 50 of the last 60 years - nobody can ever top that record.

[ChitChat]

The dynamic between DeNiro, Pesci, and Stone in Casino is one of the most disturbingly realistic interactions I've seen in film. I've dated a few "You're so nice to me" girls who abused drugs. Spot on.

[vincenzomarsden]

Sicilian isn't a dialect of Italian. It's a much older language than Italian. Most Sicilians understand Italian but most Italians don't understand Sicilian very well.
For DeNiro to learn enough Sicilian to come off as fluent is incredible.

[clintstewart]

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino legends of the game !!!

[LarrySolidarity]

Cape Fear. Casino. Heat. The Fan. Goodfellas. The Deer Hunter. The Irishman. My favorite actor - Bob Deniro

[Aggie]

That scene in Heat in the coffee shop with Al Pacino is rather amazing. They look like two veteran warriors, no longer young men, but not out of their prime. Both are forces of nature ready to collide, but for the short period of time having a conversation.

[AnyoneCanSee]

You know "Taxidriver" was a hit and then you think "King of Comedy" was "too bleak for audiences of the time". I've seen you call audiences from this time "less sophisticated". I don't know why you have this bizarre idea that cinema-goers are intellectually more sophisticated than they were in the 1970s and 80s when just looking at what succeeded should tell you otherwise. In the 1970s the average person read more and went to the theatre more often than young people today. I love your takes but the fact that you think we were all dummies gets annoying.

[pulsarstargrave]

I've said this about quite a few actors and it holds truly for DeNiro: he's often the best thing whenever he's in a very bad movie!

[KidFresh]

Cape Fear is such an underrated flick!

[randycunningham]

De Niro as Jimmy in Goodfellas is the best performance/character I've ever seen.

[milkcookiesandme]

He's my personal greatest actor of all time

[harryholmes]

Robert De Niro is a legend. He is a very versatile actor from Taxi Driver to Godfather II to Goodfellas to even Dirty Grandpa. I strongly believe that critics do not give comedy the credit it deserves, that said De Niro deserves a break like you said FilmStack.
There isn't many others that come close to him.

[jeteper]

I think DeNiro was a wise choice for Joker, and he plays a stand in for the character of Jerry Louis with Joker drawing many parallels to King of Comedy. Very meta.

[justapro]

I have over 60 of his films on DVD, the guy is an absolute legend! Best actor ever in my eyes.

[haaa]

Glad that you made a video on my favorite actor ever! A suggestion for the next actor video is the great Philip Seymour Hoffman

[XhoowieX]

I think the 'why don't you try acting?' feels a little bit more legitimate coming from Olivier to a young Dustin Hoffman than from a YouTube channel to Robert De Niro...

[Asyoulikeit]

De Niro was so incredibly attractive in the 70s.

[themsource]

Really hate how WB canceled two of his upcoming film projects just for his Joker 2 comments, say what you want about his opinions, this guy is a great actor and he should be given a few more roles in the time he has left. Because once he goes the world loses another wonderfully talented and dedicated man

[eaglesavage]

I don't know what more you want from him bro. He The G.O.A.T no one is or has ever been better.