Posted on 04/05/2018 12:24:48 PM PDT by ethom
If ever an actor radiated a liberal persona, it would be Robert De Niro
The 74-year-old Academy Award-winning actor made it clear in a recent interview with IndiWire that hes not interested in hearing opposing views, has no use for the NRA and only cares about anti-gun high school kids.
Oh, and the virulent anti-Trump zealot slammed Roseanne.
Robert De Niro (L) and Meryl Streep (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for National Board of Review).
The people that I care about are those young people who demonstrated, said De Niro, speaking of the recent gun control efforts that featured some of the students from the Parkland, Fla., high school that was attacked by a crazed gunman.
Theyre the future, he added. They know. They say, Well remember in November. Theyre the ones that feel the way we do, not the way the gun lovers and the NRA do, with all that idiocy to the point of absurdity The CDC cant even do a study because the NRA stopped it. The CDC works for us! How can the NRA stop that? What kind of absurd logic is that?
The actor had no issue with taking on roles throughout his career that feature gun violence, using the topic to imply an NRA member is a total lunatic.
I could play somebody whos a total lunatic, De Niro said. I could play somebody whos a member of the NRA. It doesnt mean I subscribe to that. Thats what an actor does.
And while he doesnt mind collecting a substantial paycheck for doing so, the liberal actor was clear he sees no need for talking with those who share a different point of view.
This was evident when he was asked about last weeks reboot of Roseanne, which drew over 25 million viewers actress Roseann Barr has expressed support for the president, as does the character she plays on the show.
Ive never seen her show before, I didnt know she was supporting Trump, but I have no interest in that, De Niro responded. Were at a point with all of us this where its beyond trying to see another persons point of view.
This being Trumps fault, of course.
There are ways you can talk about that, but were at a point where the things that are happening in our country are so bad and it comes from Trump, De Niro stated, before brushing off the popular reboot.
There are so many people who have left his administration, its a serious thing. So I dont care about Roseanne, he said. They want that thing, fine. We have real issues in this country.
And why a conservative American would ever attend a film featuring this wingnut, essentially elevating his platform, is one of the worlds greatest mysteries.
This reaction on Twitter pretty much sums it all up when it comes to Hollywood:
Whenever I respect someone in this industry, I always try to avoid learning about them as a person, because they always ruin it for me, tweeted Alana Mastangelo.
That's big of him.
AND THAT CONSERVATIVES HAVE ONE HALF OF ONE CABLE NEWS CHANNEL (FOXNews)... and liberals have the rest? And he thinks that's 'fair'? All of us need to finish the job of cutting our cables, and boycotting ALL movies.
What a puffed up bigoted sh*t Robert De Niro is... what a narrow minded totalitarian jerk.
Some high profile, anxious, affected political people are getting old enough to be near running out of time. Maybe that’s why some of them are getting so hysterical—that and their lack of sufficiently strict upbringing.
President Trump lives RENT FREE in De Niro’s pinhead!
Bobby Di-Nit-Wit needs to be slapped up the good, old fashioned way.
I’d love to see Melania Trump go there and do the deed on live national TV.
Paltrow died a lingering, painful death...so there’s a Silver Lining! :)
“Beyond trying to see the other person’s point of view”.
That works both directions, Robert...
You should be smart enough to know that.
Karma.......
Good. With all the B-rate garbage that he’s been putting out recently, I’m beyond watching his movies anymore.
but I get the sentiment
Liberals are the most intolerant, bigoted, stingiest, polluting, angry, unfriendly, greedy, fascist, hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, child-abusing, amoral, stupid, censoring, horse-punching, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, Jew-hating, Israel-hating, communist, vote-rigging, vulgar, dirty, smelly, election-rejecting, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, poo-flinging, cop-killing, war-mongering, conservative black hating, and scared little lying thumb-sucking idiots God
has ever created.
That would require no acting whatsoever.
The facade that these people are anything but a American Schutzstaffel in waiting is gone.
Well, he right about that, but he is wrong about which group is truly done being enslaved!
At least were not sitting in front of “The Robert Di Niro Show”.
Raging Bullsh*t
I enjoyed “Heat”. A good movie with good acting.
I remember watching the shoot-out scene in downtown LA and thinking “WOW!
The Rosie show is not conservative. It is a homosexual promotion show. THAT IS NOT CONSERVATIVE.
“...play somebody whos a total lunatic...”
He IS somebody whos a total lunatic.
Every time it comes on TV I turn up the volume on the stereo....
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