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‘To me, Manhattan is the universe’: Scorsese and De Niro reunite on stage
The actor and director came together for a Mean Streets reunion at Tribeca film festival, with superfan Nas asking the questions
As a restless young man in search of a dollar wherever he could get it, he saw an aspirational figure in De Niro’s hot-tempered hustler Johnny Boy, and as a budding artist using the modest means available to convey his raw vision of authentic drama at street-level, he came to see himself in Scorsese. Photograph: Antione Delerme/Soul B Photos/REX/ShutterstockA humbled Nas played grateful hype man to the living legends joining him for the afternoon, effusing, “It’s Marvin Gaye, it’s Sinatra … These guys, they’re top-tier.” And to watch the pair of longtime collaborators talk about their careers – well, mostly Marty, De Niro was his characteristically terse yet polite self – it’s still easy to see why. One anecdote recounted a Christmas dinner at Brian De Palma’s house; another involved the great John Cassavetes, who was a valuable sounding board in his insistence that Scorsese not “cut a goddamn frame” from a playful-tense exchange between Johnny Boy and Harvey Keitel’s Charlie.
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