
Robert De Niro in Raging Bull, 1980.

They’ll call me the contender
They’ll listen for the bell
With my face flashing crimson from the fires of hell
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Jake LaMotta on the set of Raging Bull

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro during filming of Raging Bull, 1980

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Robert De Niro in an interview with Michael Parkinson in 1981.

Vickie La Motta holds her head in her hands in disbelief as she watches her husband, Jake, be beaten to a pulp by Sugar Ray Robinson on Valentine’s Day 1951, portrayed in Raging Bull as the famous scene where a bloody Jake claims “You never got me down, Ray.”