The Oscar-winning actor is filming his new miniseries in New York City.
At 80 years old, Robert De Niro remains more active than ever. The renowned actor recently received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Martin Scorsese's film Killers of the Flower Moon. And although he usually makes the news for his acting achievements, in the last few hours he became news after being taken out of context.
Today a video began circulating of De Niro in New York City, confronting a group of protesters, whom many described as pro-Palestine. The Oscar winner was initially believed to have interrupted filming of his new miniseries Zero Day to address the crowd. However, his actions would be part of the actor's new fiction for Netflix.
"This is not a movie; this is real," De Niro is heard saying in the video. "Stay tuned, offer your support, offer prayers, that's great. But you have to do it from behind the barricade. And if you're going to keep talking nonsense, then you have to go home."
Elsewhere he can be heard shouting: "These people are dangerous and they say they are going to do it again! Again! We don't want that. You don't want that. None of us want that."
As a result of this fact, many media outlets have echoed this video to point out Robert De Niro's attitude and position regarding the conflict in the Middle East. Although in the past the Taxi Driver and Goodfellas actor has openly expressed his support for Israel, this time it is an event taken out of context where the lines between fiction and reality seem to have been blurred.
Everything seems to indicate that De Niro's words in the video are part of the fiction in which he stars alongside Jesse Plemons and Angela Bassett, where he plays a former president of the United States who must deal with a series of cyberattacks.
"In the midst of a crisis: how do we discover the truth when it seems that the world is being destroyed by uncontrollable forces? Furthermore, to what extent are conspiracy theories our inventions or products of our imagination?" reads the official synopsis of the series. Netflix, which still does not have a release date.
