Robert De Niro used to keep away from interviews in any respect prices.
This critic encountered him roughly 20 years in the past and he politely refused my queries. It wasn’t a one-off.
GQ journal as soon as penned an whole characteristic in 2006 across the Oscar-winner’s reluctance to speak with the press.
Since he emerged within the early Seventies as one of the vital outstanding, intense, and dazzling actors ever seen onscreen, De Niro has hardly ever agreed to be interviewed. When he has consented, that was typically when the difficulty began. Articles about him sometimes deteriorated into accounts of the interview’s collapse, and of the interviewer’s ensuing anger, frustration, acquiescence, or bafflement.
Now, De Niro routinely seems throughout the media panorama. And he at all times saves time to rage towards President Donald Trump.
Robert De Niro’s Anti-Trump Rant Is So Obscene ‘The View’ Has To Lower His Mic https://t.co/e4YaDC81RN pic.twitter.com/hlBH3NqLFM
— Each day Wire Information (@DailyWireNews) Could 14, 2024
Robert De Niro drops “f**okay Trump” twice in his speech on the Tony Awards earlier than introducing Bruce Springsteen. pic.twitter.com/o4E1WoT5oU
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) June 11, 2018
De Niro exterior the Manhattan courthouse simply referred to as Trump supporters “clowns.”
A lot for unity.pic.twitter.com/fKgb36H2KT
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) Could 28, 2024
One thing else modified alongside the best way for the two-time Oscar winner. His field workplace outcomes have cratered.
The star’s newest movie, “The Alto Knights,” is anticipated to bomb this weekend with a $2-3 million haul from 2,800 screens. That’s a far cry from the movie’s $45 million price range.
It’s disastrous, and there’s nobody responsible however De Niro.
Twice.
The actor performs the movie’s two key roles – mobsters Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. No star is extra related to traditional gangster films than De Niro. But prognosticators see solely doom for the Barry Levinson movie.
It’s hardly the one De Niro bomb lately. Think about:
- “About My Father” (2023) – $12 million US
- “Amsterdam” (2022) – $14.9 million US
- “The Comeback Path” (2020) – No US launch
- “The Battle with Grandpa” (2020) – $21 million US
His final massive hit was 2019’s “Joker” which made $335 million. He co-starred as an old-school speak present host who has a deadly encounter with the title character. Joaquin Phoenix grabbed all the eye through his Oscar-winning efficiency, and the movie dropped on the superhero style’s industrial peak.
Even the most important stars endure the occasional flop, however De Niro’s petulant activism has remoted him from a large swath of the nation.
The star’s legacy stays safe after many years of iconic movie performances. Nothing can take that away from him.
- “Goodfellas”
- “Taxi Driver”
- “On line casino”
- “Warmth”
- “Imply Streets”
- “Raging Bull”
- “The Godfather Half II”
His cartoonish anti-Trump rants, coming because the nation coalesced across the unconventional chief final November, are clearly hurting his field workplace model at the moment.
