Check out this incredible interview from our friends at FLATT magazine with the OG bobby D.
Excerpt & Images below - full interview here
I’ve been told repeatedly that he rarely grants interviews, so I’m not sure what to expect as I sit staring at my iPhone waiting for Robert De Niro to call. Two things are running through my mind, the iconic Bananarama song “Robert De Niro is Waiting”, and, the fact that my Mother’s cousin, playwright and actor, Michael Gazzo, was up for the same supporting actor nomination for GODFATHER II. Fate favored Mr. De Niro that Oscar night in 1975 and the rest is history. I decide to break the ice by mentioning this. What followed was a very long pause, and then a most unexpected response:
Robert De Niro: “Huh…That’s a strange thing!…that’s really kind of surreal. I haven’t thought of Michael in a long time, but today, I was driving up the FDR toward the Brooklyn Bridge and I saw the projects there. I saw the projects and they look the same way, the same projects that Michael wrote about…freshened up a bit. I remember when I saw that movie, it was a play first, the projects, they shot the projects just north of the Bridge, or Stuyvesant Town. I remembered that was one of the establishing shots for Hat Full of Rain. Michael Gazzo wrote that great play.”
Full interview here