The untold truth of Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro is a Hollywood icon. An A-list regular since the early '70s, he is, as of The Guardian in 2019, "able to wipe the floor with modern lightweights like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Daniel Day-Lewis."
While some critics have brazenly claimed that De Niro is a typecast mobster, the performances the actor has delivered have nearly always been critically acclaimed (let's just forget that The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle ever happened). Indeed, as John Parker wrote in Robert De Niro – Portrait of a Legend, "It was ... characteristic of De Niro's performances that whatever he did involved repetition." Sure enough, that repetition works, and even looking at New York's 2019 effort in The Irishman, his on-screen gangster persona was once again praised by moviegoers. "I'm a perfectionist," the star Taxi Driver told The Guardian in 2018. "I always try to do as much research as possible for a role."
Renowned for playing strong, quiet guys, it turns out De Niro is more or less the same in real life. As his 2019 interview with The Guardian observed, while he's "not exactly monosyllabic, [he] spends so much time nodding with his distinctive pouty mouth bite and says the least he can get away with. Known for not liking interviews, we've still managed to find a few gems about this legendary cool A-list. Here's the untold truth about Robert De Niro.
