I can see why he doesn't like doing interviews, he doesn't feel comfortable and not good at keeping a conversation going with strangers and tends to take jokes at face value and answer them seriously. Arsenio Hall is good, you can tell he understood what kind of person de Niro was and knew how to approach it. He had lots of questions ready as a flowing conversation wasn't going to happen.

@stevejames5863

2 жыл бұрын

everytime i see a robert deniro interview, its not that great or entertaining. i read, when deniro gets into a role, he becomes obsessed with the character and role. he becomes a pain in the ass with the role. the man is an artist, he is not an entertainier. he doesn t seem hollywood type. in other words his life is his craft, he s not really a star, in that he doesn t really seem the glitter and start type. he seems to be quiet, unassumming and one hell of an actor, of which he takes acting much more seriously than most actors.] some actors love the interview, and live for the fame and applause, i think deniro is simply an artist, not a star type.]

@Tusc9969

2 жыл бұрын

It's tough to watch De Niro being interviewed in this kind of setting because you can tell he's shy and doesn't like it. To some people he would seem inarticulate but that's not the case at all. He's the type of guy who's very concerned about being misunderstood so he's very careful to pick the exact word in all cases.

@domwalker6526

2 жыл бұрын

I agree I love deniro, but he does seem a bit uncomfortable here.

@twainjones

Жыл бұрын

You're completely right. But I sorta have the same thing as Robert, not so good with people I don't know too well. But you can tell he has a heart of gold.

@Squirt69

Жыл бұрын

AUSTISM DeNIRO

Arsenio was the best interviewer ever... He could sense that De Niro was kind of nervous and not a live kinda guy and he would even do small little body posture things to relax the atmosphere, like putting his feet on the couch... We can all learn from this genius.

@leostawicki7283

9 ай бұрын

Arsenio sucked!!!!

@bobthebear1246

8 ай бұрын

He was a great interviewer but you have to admit that question he asked him about being an Executive Producer was rather silly.

@velvetunderpants44

6 ай бұрын

I always feel that De Niro doesn't get why people feel the way they do about him. He doesn't get the fame thing. Which is actually a kinda positive thing

I enjoy his thoughtful answers.

Robert De Niro the best actor forever 👍🏻🥰😘❤️

Love Robert De Niro. There are very few interviewees that can get him to talk about his work has an actor. Assenio and Graham Norton are the only 2 i have noticed that know how to make him talk and feel comfortable in there company.

Best charismatic actor ever...!!!!

@walthammond6816

3 жыл бұрын

That may well be but he's also a left-wing commie radical.

@bobsagett1474

2 жыл бұрын

@@walthammond6816 lol hardly. commie, really? get a grip

@j7220

Жыл бұрын

@Walt De Niro is an American treasure. You’re a red just for your mindless comment.

@sasazivanovic777

Жыл бұрын

​@@walthammond6816 Who was talking about Politics you weirdo...

@bobthebear1246

8 ай бұрын

​@@walthammond6816And the TrumpTard reveals himself. 🤣🖕🏻

Great Arsenio. Robert, as always, insightful acting master.

Wow!! For De Niro that was a talkative interviewed!! He is usually fighting to even say a word when he is on cobert, or Fallon.....but here , he is talking, he isn't being standoffish.... I wonder why he is so different here? I guess the years have jaded him

I just saw Arsenio on the Tamron Hall show saying this was his toughest interview he ever had but I’ve seen a lot of Robert Deniro interviews and this went pretty well. Arsenio seemed to get a lot out of him, most Deniro interviews turn out very awkward.

Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford have to be the most difficult actors to interview.

@lexkanyima2195

Жыл бұрын

No, they are private

@KevinQ1989

Жыл бұрын

They're all introverts

@DMalltheway

Жыл бұрын

Warren Beatty is extremely difficult to interview

@Missjunebugfreak

Жыл бұрын

Harrison has a great dry sense of humor. Just watch his interviews on Graham Norton or his press tour for Blade Runner 2049.

@bobthebear1246

8 ай бұрын

Warren Beatty trumps them all, easily.

De Niro and DeVito finally did do a movie together a few years ago.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👄Interviews like these make me so proud to have always been a fan of the Arsenio Hall show 🏅🙋‍♀️☯️

It's tough to watch De Niro being interviewed in this kind of setting because you can tell he's shy and doesn't like it. To some people he would seem inarticulate but that's not the case at all. He's the type of guy who's very concerned about being misunderstood so he's very careful to pick the exact word in all cases.

People want Robert de Niro to be like his movie characters and he's not and then they say he's awkward.

Woah! Very rare for Mr De Niro to do interviews! Woah!

@rp4254

7 ай бұрын

Not rare at all. Since 1988, DeNiro has done over thousands of interviews over the years. Before 1988 you didn't see him appear on any TV talk shows except for The Mike Douglas show & Merv Griffin. Now the one Hollywood star who is rare is Jack Nicholson. He has never appeared on Late Night TV or any morning shows.

Arsenio really nailed this interview.

We're No Angels was such a great and funny movie, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn and Demi Moore were each great in it.

😍

♥️😘🥰👍

1:14 Is this really 1989?? Sound like they're doing a rendition of a riff in Soundgarden's Like S*icide which was released on Superunknown in 1994.

@Pravindaswani74

3 ай бұрын

Lol

Probably my all-time favorite actor. Robert de Niro is an amazing, incredibly versatile actor and he's such a class act and gentleman to boot. *P.S.:* I'm sure Alec Baldwin feels just terrible having literally killed someone on set. /s 🙄

♥️💏♥️

What was the movie ?

@mobil1569

3 жыл бұрын

We're No Angels (89)

I watched this interview when it was originally televised, and it made me incredibly uncomfortable. And it still does. In order to be a good interviewee on TV, one has to play off the interviewer. De Niro is obviously too real. He did nothing to feed off of Arsenio Hall. The fake laugh goes a long way. This interview falls flat.

I miss hall :( sucks tv not as good as in the 80s early 90s

Arsenio' s legs on the puffy......

who's here because of norm macdonald

@OzanUtku

2 жыл бұрын

I am here because of Norm Macdonald

@SnakesOSullivan

2 жыл бұрын

been looking for this interview for years because norm mentioned it

@SnakesOSullivan

2 жыл бұрын

@@nasimaali9646 I don't remember. Must have been someone's podcast or maybe his own

@OzanUtku

2 жыл бұрын

​@@nasimaali9646 He thought Robert De Niro was a really interesting and mysterious kind of guy, due to the roles he played and quality of acting, and the fact that he never did any talk shows. Then he saw this interview and decided that actually 'he is an idiot'. His point was that people often seem better when you don't know much about them. I don't remember where he said it.

@FrancoisDressler

2 жыл бұрын

@@OzanUtku Where did he say that exactly?

As much as I love his films, De Niro really does come across as somebody really boring. I just can't sit through his interviews at all

@ciaran6309

5 ай бұрын

U want him making jokes or what

@vincentvega9863

5 ай бұрын

@@ciaran6309 Watch his interview and then watch an interview with literally any other person and tell me he isn't boring af

He never seems comfortable in interviews he has guide lines ....don't ask this don't ask that and I don't blame him I wouldn't want to speak to someone about my personal private life unless you love yourself so much you don't care

He doesn’t like doing interviews because he needs a script.

@frlango6082

Жыл бұрын

Ach…fun!

Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of De Niro's films and have been a fan of his films for decades now but his ability to be interviewed out of character is just cringeworthy. It's like watching someone being asked by a teacher to summarize a chapter that they didn't read and then guessing and faking their way through an answer. His answers always feel so half-assed and he barely says anything. Reminds me of when you're trying to talk about something that you don't really understand or have full awareness of. It's like he's someone that's not fully conscious in the moments of his life, he's just like robotically playing out rote technique which he's developed a strength and stamina for but beyond that he's not psychologically, philosophically, or artistically plugged into what he's doing with genuine depth. It's like he's a professional at the chore of acting. It's more mechanical with him than artistic or even spiritual. I think he's more of an acting athlete than a true genuine, self-aware artist. He's to be commended for building up those skills but I must say I think De Niro has been very lucky with collaborating with others who are true artistic geniuses who have boosted his career. His overall career arc attracted many to work with him which resulted in him getting leads and roles which probably would have been better or more interesting for other artists to get a chance at. I think at times he's gotten more credit than he deserved which made him self-aggrandizing and self-righteous. Thus we've gotten his annoyingly self-righteous and amateurish political commentary of recent years. The guy can barely give an interview but thinks his political commentary is something which people should hear. In all honesty, I don't really think De Niro has done anything super cinematically special since the mid to late 90's. He's been in a lot of films since that seem mostly just about making money and not rooted in much substance. There are other actors/artists who have had far more complex and interesting things to express. De Niro seems to just repeat the angry, domineering, tough guy thing over and over again. He certainly lacks range in my view. Also we've gotten glimpses of how he treats those who work for him which show him to be kind of a self-entitled and demanding, hostile person. He's someone that used to do a lot of great collaborative work in previous decades. He really was one of the coolest for a long time. That is not true anymore. De Niro has become kind of a toy of mainstream media programming now. I still look back and marvel at a lot of his old work but am saddened at what he's sort of devolved into now.

@josephinekassongo4368

2 жыл бұрын

You have summed up something about his acting that I've never been able to truly pinpoint. You must have observed him quite a lot. Despite all of that, do you think that his 'lack of natural' is wrong? Kazan said something like that about him too. Despite that I'd still put him in the top 3 actors after Brando. He has a charisma on screen that very few have. Is it also part of his 'actor athlete' characteristic, according to you? Or do you just think he 'lacks' personality in real life? I'm interested in your point of view.

@sopranosfan11

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephinekassongo4368 Thanks. You're right. I have followed his career and films for quite a long time now as I'm sure many people have. Even now I revisit certain films of his quite a bit because some of them truly are of the highest quality. "Lack of natural". That's an interesting and clever way to put it. I don't think it's wrong. I think it's impressive and he's to be commended to have worked so hard at his method and skills to have overridden or leveraged maybe an inherent stiffness that he has. It's kind of like a naturally scrawny/skinny person doing weight training and becoming very muscular. His weakness I suppose is not being able to plug into the emotional depth of his characters as deeply as other actors such as Al Pacino. Pacino has more of a natural and emotional style of acting which just flows in a nuanced and harmonic way. De Niro is perhaps too deep into the left brain, logistical side of being so concerned with the physical externals and chemical properties of his characters rather than the spiritual/psyche aspect. (For example Alan Parker mentioned that De Niro perseverated on the length of his nails in Angel Heart which Parker thought wasn't a vital detail) De Niro would be more of a percussive type of energy of acting. That can be just as effective depending on the character/setting but noticeably falling short when the moment calls for more genuine emotion. As for his personality; again he seems to be a very left brain, mechanical type of person which can sometimes come across as boring or cold. Lacking social intuitiveness. More interested in things and systems than people or spirit. Maybe that's why he's into party politics. It's a very formulaic, boxed, systematic way of thinking. Canned answers. In his case, blue is good, red is bad. It's just as simple as that for him. For me that's an overly simplistic and limited way of viewing reality. I would say he is overly dominated by the "left" brain which can manifest as a weakness sometimes in his acting career and his public commentary.

@josephinekassongo4368

2 жыл бұрын

@@sopranosfan11 Thank you for your answer. I discovered his movies very recently. Maybe a year or two ago (the same for Brando). And I was really really astonished by the gap between his personality off screen and on screen. It's absolutely logical to be very different from the characters one plays. It's even healthy. But when I saw an interview with Brando on the Dick Cavett Show, I thought, wait a minute. This man has even more charisma in this interview than in a movie, is it normal? I feel the same way for Al Pacino (I saw Heat the other day, incredible performance by both). Pacino is indeed more on the emotional, I guess. His eyes are a formidable asset. We can understand a lot of what his characters think or go through. I noticed that he yells a lot in his movies too 😂. De Niro comes across as an everyday guy and that's not an issue. But where I'm confused is that, it's really like he doesn't connect much, very little eye contact. It must take a few decades to know him. And I think he doesn't do it on purpose or to be annoying. It's just that he is like the type of person that maybe worries about what could be said if he isn't well understood. Therefore his conversation isn't really flowy and easy going. And I know I'm not an acting expert. But I believe that sometimes it's better to watch a person move, his energy, his non-verbal, etc. to be able to maybe know who he is. And with him I feel that maybe he uses acting as a way to connect and be bigger than life than who he is in real life (maybe someone that lacks a certain amount of 'flow', I hope you know what I mean, I couldn't find another term). I don't know. It's very strange in a way but maybe that's what made him reach the highest level of his profession. He must have a tremendous inner life or he likes to be within himself. But I don't know, I feel there's much more beneath the veneer than that. Just an impression. As if he likes to hide things or I don't know. Very unique person, anyway. In his own way.

@sopranosfan11

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephinekassongo4368 Everything you said are legitimate points which I can't disagree with. You're totally right about Brando as well. Totally fascinating guy on and off screen. That's the thing. I feel so many actors are charismatic and/or interesting both on and off screen. Bryan Cranston for example. Or Mark Hamill. Louis C.K. Christopher Walken. Viggo Mortensen etc. I could go on and on. Al Pacino while maybe being a bit awkward in interviews, still comes across as likeable, relatable, and down to earth despite being somewhat shy. His awkwardness is relatable like how you'd imagine yourself responding to the fame and attention. He's trying to connect. De Niro however is possibly the most aloof actor offscreen I've ever seen even though he's one of the most respected actors. I don't think it's because he has a tremendous inner life. I agree I think he's somewhat OCD in how he tries to come across and wants to be as cool and politically correct as possible but instead overly edits and restrains himself and he just winds up being boring and not saying much. His political commentary shows a lack of insight and articulation and instead he seems to be just parroting leftist talking points. I get the feeling that what's been on his radar is not spiritual depth and a search for truth but rather trying to make money, win awards, and be a mouthpiece for Democratic Party agendas. He's wanted to continually dominate the acting world and win acting/film "championships" so to speak. He's wanted to keep the acting crown. Almost like he's addicted to winning in that world. Whereas Quentin Tarantino thinks at some point when you've reached the pinnacle of your career, it's time to retire. He recognizes that some in the film world should have stopped when they were at their best rather than continuously doing project after project despite the quality not being what it was.

@josephinekassongo4368

2 жыл бұрын

@@sopranosfan11 I understand your point of view. I can't say what makes him motivated in life as I don't know the man. Maybe it's a lifestyle he developed and wants to maintain, money, women, who knows. Many actors today seem more into being liked than being themselves, in real life. I think about the very famous Marvel actors, for example, who come across as very likeable people, with millions of fallowers on social media. But I don't know if it ever was important for an actor to be himself in front of an audience. It seems to me that in America they are held very high or they 'only' play characters. It's a skill, indeed but I dont understand why they are asked to be political also. They should use their influence for important causes, yes. But I don't know if doing it all the time is smart. When it comes to the left and the right politically, I'd prefer an actor who stands up when it's really important but for the rest stays outside of it because I'm not sure that Hollywood actors are able to change the votes of electors in a large way so why pushing that agenda? Once again, I'm not American, and not specialized in Hollywood politics. Therefore it's a foreign subject for me. But if we come back to De Niro, if I understand you, you think he wants to appear cool but doesn't come off as cool if it's not with the help of a script because inside he might feel that he isn't 'the cool kind of guy' with much personality ? Therefore, he wants to follow what's considered as well perceived. Is it a form of a real insecurity to you? Do you think he wishes he was those bigger than life characters he plays so well? To be honest with you, when I see him act in his movies from 1972 (Mean streets) to 1995 (Heat), I seriously think a part of him is in some of the characters he chooses. Maybe I'm completely wrong. Just a feeling, once again. For Brando, I can see in Streetcar and On the waterfront that he almost tries to exorcize something that he hates (maybe in him or people he despises) and it's so beautiful on screen. Really rare to see something like that. My sister and I were blown away by these two films. We prefer comedies from the 80s-90s, therefore, when we saw these Brando films we were like, OK, is it a documentary about domestic violence in the 50s (for streetcar) or what? Incredible! But for De Niro, we both though, hum, he must me a bit like that in his deep private moments. A bit of a brat (in Mean Streets), a loner (Taxi Driver), a 'stalker' a bit pushy with women (in New York New York, Raging Bull), a quick tempered person in well probably most of his films 😂. A loving father (in a Bronx Tale), and a lot of himself in the behavior and in his non-verbal in Falling in Love. Maybe I'm wrong. But I have to say that he maybe isn't the most natural among the top actors of his generation. Focused on the exterior of his characters with body transformations that help him get in character, extremely prepared and it seems so perfectly rehearsed that it's very good on screen. When he's given a great composition, he is one of the greatest interpret I have ever seen (my favorite of his is the King of Comedy, thanks to Martin Scorsese also). They make a great duo.