When Robert De Niro Actually Drove a New York City Cab to Prepare for ‘Taxi Driver’
To prepare for his role as Travis Bickle in ‘Taxi Driver,’ Robert De Niro really worked as a cab driver. The story has been told—and embellished—throughout the years. Here’s what really happened.
Robert De Niro won an Academy Award in April 1975 for The Godfather Part II. Within a few months, he was picking up strangers on the West Side of Manhattan in a yellow cab. Almost none of them looked… [+2156 chars]