The messages are often passed on in this way, almost without wanting to, almost without realizing it. That’s how actor Robert De Niro, 79, said it he became a father for the seventh time.
The remarkable interpreter of films such as The Godfather, Taxi Driver or The Raging Bull gave an interview to website ET Canada about his next film About My Father, which will be released in the United States on May 26th. Situation more than favorable to ask about his own paternal role.
When asked what his love language is, the famous actor — the same one Argentine President Alberto Fernández fantasizes will star in his biopic — told journalist Brittnee Blair that he believes in being “for the love of his children.” be”, although sometimes he has to “tack hard”.
“I mean, with kids, there’s no getting around it. I don’t like having to legislate and such things. But sometimes you just don’t have a choice,” De Niro explained. “And any parent, I think, would say the same thing. You always want to agree with the children and when in doubt, agree with them, but sometimes that doesn’t work.”
Robert De Niro is about to release About My Father and took the opportunity to talk about fatherhood. AP photo
The revelation
Then Blair said, “I know you have six children,” to get a correction from Robert De Niro: “Seven, actually I just had a baby“He revealed without giving any further explanation.
What appeared at the time to be a joke by the actor prompted ET Canada’s logs to activate and contact De Niro’s representatives, who confirmed that the famed protagonist of Novecento and The Irishman — to cite a few of his hundreds of films — he now is the father of seven children. However, it is unclear who the mother is.
Later in the interview, the Godfather star revealed that he doesn’t consider himself a “cool dad,” even though Sebastian Maniscalo, who plays De Niro’s son in the movie About my Father, calls his Salvo character that “father.”
Your role as a father
Robert De Niro has children with three different women. And it is not known who the mother of the seventh is. Photo Portal
In the interview, Robert De Niro went on to tell what he was like as a father. “I’m fine,” he said. Sometimes my kids disagree with me and they are respectful. My daughter, she is 11 years old, sometimes I feel sorry for her and I argue with her. I adore her, but these are things that happen. And as for my baby, he’s too young, the discussions will come later.”
De Niro has been married twice. He shares two children, Drena, 51, and Raphael, 46, with his first wife, Diahnne Abbott, and two children, Elliot, 25, and Helen, 11, with ex-wife Grace Hightower. He is also a father to twins Aaron and Julian, 27, with his ex-girlfriend Toukie Smith.
It needs to be confirmed if Toukie Smith is the mother of his seventh child (we don’t know the gender either) or the actor had his baby with another woman.
Maybe at the next interview.
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