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Nelson Mandela,Indira Gandhi are my heroes: Robert De Niro
“I have many real life heroes as my inspiration. (Nelson) Mandela,Peres,James Dean,Marlon Brando and from India…
Indira Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi.
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They are strong people with a big heart,” De Niro said on the sidelines of the festival.
“I try to be more empathetic towards my characters. I try to understand its position by putting myself in their shoes.
I feel I am lucky to get into these lives without having to pay a real price,” he added.
For his American biographical sports drama ‘Raging Bull’,where he played boxer Jake LaMotta,he put on 60 pounds and won not just an Oscar but also made a world record for the maximum weight gained for a film role.
De Niro spent four months learning to speak the Sicilian dialect for ‘The
Godfather II’.
De Niro’s confession of forgetting most of his early film days came as a surprise to the audience as he replied to most of th