"Unlock the keys to your financial future and legacy – <br />Get it now -- https://shorturl.at/nvCU5 "<br /><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Robert De Niro Won’t Reprise ‘Taxi Driver’ Character for Uber Ad.<br />Robert De Niro’s PR person Stan Rosenfield said the actor’s just-completed Uber commercial “has nothing to do with his his Taxi Driver character whatsoever. This rumor is based on a fictitious report from the UK several days ago.”<br /><br />PREVIOUS: Writer-director Paul Schrader has reacted to a report that Robert De Niro will reprise his iconic Taxi Driver role of Travis Bickle for an Uber commercial being filmed this week in London.<br /><br />The report indicates De Niro will be riffing on Bickle’s classic lines in a series of spots. The 1976 Martin Scorsese film is set in a noirish New York, with De Niro’s Travis Bickle cab driver slowly deteriorating into a vigilante. De Niro was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor.<br /><br />Schrader noted the Uber ad report in a Facebook post.<br /><br />“Ouch,” he wrote. “Why Bob would do this is beyond my reckoning. But I haven’t seen it. If I’m lucky I never will.”<br /><br />The line believed to be used in the Uber ad shows the deeply disturbed Bickle beginning to talk to himself in the mirror, role-playing imagined scenarios. “You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Well, then who the hell else are you talking – You talking to me? Well, I’m the only one here. Who the f**k do you think you’re talking to?”<br /><br />Schrader is currently shooting Oh, Canada with Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi.
