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Robert De Niro to reportedly revive ‘Taxi Driver’ role in Uber campaign
NY Post ^ | 09/20/2023 | Isabel Keane

Posted on 09/20/2023 8:45:49 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, he’s talkin’ to you.

Robert De Niro will reportedly reprise his iconic “Taxi Driver” role as Travis Bickle in an upcoming Uber ad campaign.

The 80-year-old actor will apparently replicate Bickle’s unforgettable line: “You talkin’ to me,” in the series of ads being filmed in London this week, The Sun reported.

“He’s going to be Travis Bickle, saying some phrases and playing up to it,” an unnamed source told the outlet.

“His previous adverts have shown he has no problem poking fun at himself.”

The Oscar-winner has recently taken on several other ad campaigns — a possible consequence of the star’s costly divorces and separations from the mothers of his seven children.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: deniro; driver; taxi; uber
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One of his better roles
1 posted on 09/20/2023 8:45:49 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Ugh, nobody wants to see some 80 year old with a mohawk trying to act tough.


2 posted on 09/20/2023 8:48:12 AM PDT by Boogieman
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3 posted on 09/20/2023 8:48:59 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No denying that he’s a great actor, but he is an insufferable leftist Hollywood jackwagon who has made it very clear that he HATES and DESPISES people like me (White, male, conservative, heterosexual and Christian). I will not pay a single wooden nickel to watch any of his films (past, present or future).


4 posted on 09/20/2023 8:52:09 AM PDT by Murder of Crows
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5 posted on 09/20/2023 8:52:46 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Magnum44

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9596a98a-4f68-4b9a-a767-1bfafe57b35d


6 posted on 09/20/2023 8:54:03 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Kinda cool! Can’t wait to see it :)


7 posted on 09/20/2023 8:54:15 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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“””Ugh, nobody wants to see some 80 year old with a mohawk trying to act tough.”””

Except maybe for this guy.

“Capt. Samuel Whittemore, a seventy-eight year old American farmer, became a legend on April 19, 1775 when he was shot in the face by British soldiers, bayoneted at least six times, and clubbed in the head with the butts of their muskets. Armed with a musket and horse pistol, Whittemore had crouched behind a wall near his home as the British retreated to Boston through Menotomy. As a flank-guard approached, he shot two soldiers dead and possibly killed one more. Inevitably, the soldiers discovered the old farmer and inflicted their wrath upon him, leaving him for dead.

Whittemore refused to die. Instead, a doctor patched him up and he lived another eighteen years—though perhaps not in much comfort as the British musket ball had torn away part of his face. He died in 1793 at age ninety-six.”


8 posted on 09/20/2023 8:54:49 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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The Diceman did a great impersonation of DeNiro...

Language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzybzb2BMi0


9 posted on 09/20/2023 8:55:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ansel12

Badassery knows no bounds.


10 posted on 09/20/2023 8:57:00 AM PDT by going hot
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To: ChicagoConservative27

cash flow a little low in the deniro household???


11 posted on 09/20/2023 8:59:40 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Didn’t he recently father a child? Perhaps needing $ for child’s future.


12 posted on 09/20/2023 9:02:04 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He was supposed to be the taxi driver in “Collateral” but turned it down.
I know De Niro is a Trump hater and liberal, but the man can flat-out act. I love his work.


13 posted on 09/20/2023 9:02:25 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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https://apnews.com/article/robert-de-niro-baby-68296f887ee3892e28ecc4a0fe596ffa

Fathers 7th child at 79.


14 posted on 09/20/2023 9:03:44 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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“The idea had been growing in my brain for some time. True force.”


15 posted on 09/20/2023 9:10:41 AM PDT by CletusVanDamme (Lord, I'm so tired. How long can this go on?)
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Fathers 7th child at 79.

Claims to have fathered 7th child at 79. DNA test may say otherwise.

16 posted on 09/20/2023 9:14:44 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I thought he was re-enacting that role every time he mentioned Trump.


17 posted on 09/20/2023 9:20:05 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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The Diceman did a great impersonation of DeNiro...
Language

Good one. I have a DVD of him. Right on the front it says;
UNCUT & UNCENSORED-CONTAINS EXTREMELY FOUL LANGUAGE
;O)

18 posted on 09/20/2023 9:24:25 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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I had to check and see if this was Babylon Bee satire.


19 posted on 09/20/2023 9:25:43 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Can you say Flop , Fail and Disaster


20 posted on 09/20/2023 9:27:23 AM PDT by butlerweave
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