While producer Michael Deeley was pleased with the revised script, he was still concerned about being able to sell the film. "We still had to get millions out of a major studio", wrote Deeley, "as well as convince our markets around the world that they should buy it before it was finished. I needed someone with the caliber of Robert De Niro." Hiring De Niro turned out to be a casting coup, because he knew nearly every actor and actress in New York City. De Niro brought Meryl Streep to the attention of Michael Cimino and Deeley. With Streep came John Cazale. De Niro also accompanied Cimino to scout locations for the steel mill sequence, as well as rehearsed with the actors and actresses to use the workshops as a bonding process.

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