Robert De Niro was reportedly not in the mood during a recent interview with the Radio Times, US Weekly reported. Reporter Emma Brockes gave The Guardian a detailed account of her experience attempting to interview The Intern star, 72, about his upcoming comedy and his career.
The fact that Robert De Niro was not happy with the interview was perhaps because he was upset during its course. Brockes claimed that she asked De Niro about a couple of topics that seemingly upset him, US Weekly reported.
First, she questioned him about the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City. This neighborhood, is home to the famed film festival which he co-founded. The reporter asked him if the area had been overrun by bankers. This question did not please him much.
She went on to ask him if the Oscar winner ever gets into "autopilot" mode while on set.
At this point, De Niro reportedly asked Brockes to turn off the recorder. After turning off the recorder, he began pacing madly, the reporter explained. He complained about the tone of the interview.
"All the way through. Negative inference," he said, according to Brockes, reported US Weekly . "The whole way through and I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it, darling."
De Niro is certainly not the first star in recent memory to cut an interview short. This summer model-turned-actress Cara Delevingne made headlines with her disastrous and awkward televised back and forth with "Good Morning Sacramento" anchors, in which the journalists said she should go take a nap, US Weekly said.
Brockes told the Guardian she was astonished at the actor's reaction, and "felt sympathy" for De Niro, who had sat through a long day of multiple interviews with members of the foreign press, as is commonplace when promoting a Hollywood film.
"When someone is being uncooperative in that kind of interview, when they are obviously grumpy and knackered, you ask them a number of straightforward questions and you leave," she said in the report.
"You try to be respectful and polite, which I was. It wasn't a hostile interview. Poor guy - who would want to be contractually obliged to do this stuff? But you make the best of it so you can go home."
