Robert De Niro Slams Donald Trump, Talks “The Banality Of Evil” After ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Premiere In Cannes
deadline.com“Taking risk at this age, what else can I do?” beamed Martin Scorsese at the Cannes press conference for Killers of the Flower Moon.
The director appeared with stars Leonardo Di Caprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone and leader of the Osage Nation, Chief Standing Bear, to talk about how they aimed to bring attention to the atrocities that happened with the oil rich Osage nation in the early 1920s, which was in the vicinity of the Black Wall Street massacre.
Robert De Niro drew a parallel to what occured with the Osage nation to the recent George Floyd tragedy, which occurred during the Donald Trump presidential administration, a politician who the Oscar winner has often blasted.
Commenting on his character William Hale, a lynchpin in the Osage Tulsa society, who appeared as a friend to the people, but was their foe, De Niro expounded, “I don’t a lot about my character.
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