Robert De Niro is injured, but will not delay filming "Killers of the Flower Moon"

Robert De Niro is currently filming his eleventh collaboration with director Martin Scorsese. After The Irishman, the Italian-American duo will screen Killers of the flower moon, a film that chronicles the historical events of the oil war in the nation of Osange. De Niro, in an interview with Indiewire, talked about the production and how an injury to his leg has made him have a really bad time. “I broke my quadriceps in some way” said the actor and added information to the confusion of such a statement: “I just took a simple step over something and fell. The pain was unbearable and now I have to fix it. ” About to turn 78 this summer, De Niro blamed these things on age, “it happens especially when you get older, you have to be prepared for unexpected things. But it’s manageable. ”This injury occurred in the middle of filming in Oklahoma, which meant that he had to travel to New York to be treated by his specialist doctor. As the actor of One of Ours had already planned to take a few weeks out of production, this delay will not affect at any time the western that Scorsese prepares with Apple.Hope in Biden and the future of cinemaRobert De Niro also took the opportunity to throw your darts at Donald Trump and show hope for the Biden administration in such difficult times. “I believe that goodwill will prevail,” he said. “I never thought I would see something so crazy in my life. We have to get to a situation where we are the country we are supposed to be (…) The country will straighten out. You will find the right direction with someone like Biden trying to do the right thing. “In the conversation in which the co-founder of the Tribeca Festival, Jane Rosenthal, was also present, the actor stressed the importance of the film also being released in theaters in which he hopes that for its premiere the situation will be much more normal. “I hope that as time passes in the coming months we will be closer and closer to returning to theaters as we used to do (…) cinemas are essential,” De Niro said. First official image of “Killers of the flower moon” (Apple) The production of the film is actually being shot where all the events narrated in David Grann’s historical book of the same name took place. The screenplay for this adaptation is signed by Forrest Gump Oscar-winning writer Eric Roth. The story also explains, among other things, the need to create a body like the FBI with agent Tom White, played by Jesse Plemons, who investigates a series of murders that occurred in this promised land of oil.