Al Pacino and Robert De Niro emoting in a motion-capture suit with dozens of sensors attached to their heads? So De Niro reenacted the scene himself, playing 47-year-old “Jimmy Conway” in the film’s classic Cadillac sequence. On the first day of production in upstate New York, Helman remembers watching De Niro and Pesci in action. ‘Bob, you’re late 30s; Joe, you’re early 50s, so you have to behave that way.’ They do the scene, and that’s it. We just made them younger, that’s all.”

Source: Los Angeles Times January 03, 2020 16:52 UTC