The two had grown up as acquaintances in Manhattan’s Lower East Side and become familiar during the productions of the Scorsese directed films, Mean Streets and Taxi Driver.ĭe Niro, now an Oscar-winner and a legitimate film star, possessed a script that he had been obsessing over. At that stage in their lives, De Niro and Scorsese were, in the latter’s words, ‘like brothers.’
“No more coke, no more interviews,” he declared.įollowing the New York overdose, Robert De Niro visited Scorsese in hospital. Depression followed, alleviated only by extreme drug use.ĭuring an interview at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, Scorsese ran out of coke and decided he couldn’t continue. Martin Scorsese had started out using cocaine as a creative tool, and to combat a crippling lack of confidence.
Doctors told him that he was in pending danger of a brain haemorrhage. He was taken to hospital with severe internal bleeding. A young Scorsese in 1973, before his cocaine use landed him in hospital.
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