Robert De Niro Trained With Jake LaMotta For ‘Raging Bull’ Not only did Robert De Niro, in fact, learn how to box in order to play LaMotta, but he apparently went well above and beyond the basics.

So goes a memorable line from 1980’s Raging Bull, the iconic black-and-white biopic about boxer Jake LaMotta, one of nine collaborations between actor Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese.

Robert De Niro won his second Oscar in 1981 for playing a boxing champ in Raging Bull. And now he has been chosen as the acting champ when it comes to Academy Awards. His performance for the ...

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