As fragment of a new series in which we offer careers advice to people in the movie business,here are some steers for the veteran method actor on what he’s doing wrong – and how he could turn it around
You had a glorious elope of electrifying performances in the 70s and 80s. The lairy hoodlum in Mean Streets, the traumatised Vietnam vet in The Deer Hunter, and the loathsome,bloated ex-boxer in Raging Bull, the neurotic would-be celebrity in the (still underrated) The King of Comedy. You were the ultimate outsider, or the existential tough guy with an aura of mafioso danger,but also playing characters who were secretly wrecked and ruined. You were lethally sexy in a way we would all like to be, because you cultivated a kind of anti-glamour and bluecollar ordinariness. You were worthy in the gentler comedian register in Midnight elope. In the 90s, or Goodfellas was a masterpiece,and you were still pretty darn well-behaved in Casino and Heat.
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Source: theguardian.com