![]() ![]() Jake would always say, “He never got me down, Ray.” He’s the one that came up with that line in the movie. “He never got me down, Ray,” Jake would say, because he’d stayed on his feet for every one of those fights. Even though he only won, what was it, one fight out of six? Cathy Moriarty in 1980 Everett CollectionĪnd he always went back to the Sugar Ray Robinson fights. You can’t take that many punches and not have any sign of it.īut he was there for all the fight scenes - he remembered everything about how each fight went down. That’s why they called him the “Raging Bull” - he never gave up.īut you knew by then the damage had been done from taking so many blows to the head. In the ring, he’d just stand up and look you in the face and let you beat him until he found an opening - and then he’d knock you out. They used to play football during lunch on the set and one time he got hit in the head.Īnd he laughed and said, “What, are you smoking that stuff?” I’d be in costume, all dressed up as his second wife, Vikki LaMotta, in the ‘50s, and he would see me and laugh and call out, “Vikki! He was Jake - but he was not the Jake in the movie. I met Jake LaMotta in ‘79 on the “Raging Bull” set in LA.
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