Robert De Niro Sounds Off On Acting, Directing, And Donald Trump
deadline.comA hit song by Bananarama in the ’80s told us that Robert De Niro‘s Waiting. Tonight, on Real Time with Bill Maher, he finally got the chance to get a few things off his chest.
Maher tried to balance things between show business chat and trying to draw out De Niro on a few political topics. He acknowledged the actor’s greatness by reading off a laundry list of films enhanced by De Niro’s work, and asked what goes into deciding which film to work with. “I see the possibility,” he said. “Some I’ve been involved with from the inception.
They’re movies I’ve felt were worthy. I think I have a pretty good average. I just pick certain things, that I feel are good, well-written, or smart, or the director’s good.
Scorsese, I just go with him no matter what’s he going to do.” Asked whether there was anything he missed out on, De Niro had a surprising choice: The Silence of the Lambs.
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