Thelma Schoonmaker's husband, director Michael Powell, was consulted about the weight gain scenes. In Powell's Duello a Berlino (1943), the lead character gets significantly bigger during the course of the movie. Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro were curious how Roger Livesey had achieved that effect. Powell informed them that Livesay had gotten bigger through careful use of camera angles, shaving his hair to make his head appear larger, and judicious use of padding. Scorsese and De Niro felt that the film was too realistic to get away with that kind of effect, so the decision was made for De Niro to physically bulk up through overeating.

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