Taxi Driver is one of Robert De Niro’s most iconic films, and he was so invested in the role that he actually became a taxi driver for a while.
His cabbie licence currently resides at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and we can’t get enough of his youthful looks, and curtains hairdo that a few hipsters these days would die for.
Andrew J. Rausch describes the methodical prep the actor did for the role of Travis Bickle in his book, The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro:
‘As usual, De Niro’s preparation for the film was meticulous. While in Italy working on Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900, De Niro travelled to a nearby US army base. There he studied a group of techs with the Midwestern accent he sought for the character of Travis Bickle. He made friends with them, studying the way they dressed and their mannerisms. He… Read the full story