Paul Schrader, who wrote the film, said that during preproduction, he stumbled upon a young woman ( Garth Avery) who reminded him very much of Iris, the character Foster played, and invited her to have breakfast with him and Scorsese. But in those few outings, he really helped me understand improvisation and building a character in a way that was almost nonverbal.” I think I rolled my eyes at times because he really was awkward. Robert was pretty socially awkward then and was pretty much in character, which was his process. “After the first time, I was completely bored. “Robert De Niro and I had a bunch of outings, where he took me to different diners around town and walked through the script with me,” she says of their character prep. Foster had acted previously, and says that she assumed this film would be like her other jobs, but quickly realized otherwise-not just because of the script’s subject matter but because of the method preparation De Niro preferred.
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