Robert De Niro may be one of the most respected actors in the world, but when Jodie Foster first met him on the set of Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” at just 12 years old, she wasn’t so impressed.
Speaking during a career-spanning conversation at the Marrakech Film Festival on Sunday after receiving a tribute award, Foster recalled how De Niro “took me under his wing” and would bring her to coffee shops to run lines for the film. But since De Niro was taking a Method approach to his character, she found him quite boring.
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