![]() Robert De Niro Turned Down Scorsese’s ‘The Departed’ and ‘Gangs of New York’ I might need some therapy!” As De Niro got behind the wheel of Jonathan’s taxi, erasing all memories of Travis Bickle, Nick experienced, “The full range of emotions on the set, terror, but also being moved, seeing a great actor act out your life.” He says that, “Character-wise, De Niro was able to embody my father in a creepy way. Seeing his own father brought to life by a household name like Robert De Niro gave author Nick Flynn pause. A fairly different definition of an idol, but in the directionless young Nick’s eyes, the next best thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() A homeless vagabond who insisted he was purposely seeking material for his unfinished manuscript, Jonathan was a stubborn old man who frustrated Nick in adulthood but was never present in Nick’s childhood, leading to Nick having no idea what to think about this walking myth. “Kill your idols,” said Paul Dano at the red carpet event for “ Being Flynn.” The Focus Features release, based on the autobiographical novel “ Another Bullshit Night In Suck City” by Nick Flynn, focuses on Flynn’s rocky relationship with his self-proclaimed tortured genius of a father. ![]()
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