New York City was full of Hollywood stars this Monday, November 27th to celebrate the 33rd edition of the Gotham Awards. Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, the three protagonists of the film “The Moon Killers” directed by Martin Scorsese, attended the ceremony where De Niro was responsible for presenting the “Historical Icon & Creator Tribute Award”. was, a special award that recognizes the work of recreation and historical fidelity, that honors the filmmaker and the cast who have succeeded in bringing to life a story with authenticity and that, on this occasion, fell precisely on Scorsese’s film, the was produced by Apple Studios. On stage, De Niro, to the surprise of those present, denounced that his speech had been censored to delete some lines in which he attacked the former President of the United States, Donald Trump. Finally, the actor pronounced them equally and read it in the original format, cell phone in hand.
“History is no longer history. “The truth is no longer the truth, and even the facts are being replaced by alternative facts and fueled by conspiracy theories,” De Niro began. “The entertainment industry is not immune to this disease. Duke John Wayne famously said of the Native Americans, “I don’t think it was wrong to take this great land from them.” There were large numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians selfishly tried to take it for themselves In this case, De Niro’s complaint was closely related to the central theme of the film The Moon Killers, which tells the story of the Osage, the Indian people who were the richest people in the early 1920s when there was oil of the world were found on their land, and the subsequent conspiracy between white men in collusion with authorities and law enforcement to destroy them and steal their assets.
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“The lie has become another tool in the charlatan’s arsenal,” continued the actor from “Taxi Driver” or “Bad Streets”. “The former president lied to us more than 30,000 times during his four years in office and is maintaining the pace in his current campaign. Despite all his lies, he can’t hide his soul. “He attacks the weak, destroys nature’s gifts and shows his lack of respect by, for example, using Pocahontas as an insult,” the actor said, referring to Trump’s nickname for Senator Elizabeth Warren. It was at that moment, and after a brief pause, that De Niro informed the audience that his speech had been edited, clearly placing the blame on The Moon Killers producer Apple: “I have to do all this about it say how I thank Apple and Gotham and blah blah blah… but I don’t feel like thanking them for anything, after what they’ve done, how dare they?
It’s not the first time that the winner of two Oscars – best supporting actor in “The Godfather II” (1974) and best actor in “Raging Bull” (1980) – has attacked Donald Trump. De Niro has staunchly supported the Democratic Party throughout his career, expressing his support (both as a public figure and financially) for candidates such as Al Gore or John Kerry, and during Trump’s time in office he did not hesitate to express his constant support towards them Expressing rejection of guidelines. One of the most popular also took place as part of an awards ceremony. It was at the 2018 Tony Awards ceremony: “I will say one thing. “Fuck Trump,” he said at the start of his speech at Radio City Musical Hall in New York. “There are no more chances for Trump. “We have to screw Trump,” De Niro insisted in his speech. The gala was broadcast by CBS, which also tried on this occasion to silence the actor’s words with noise, but without much success since those present heard his words and then spread them on the Internet. And they also reached the president himself, who didn’t hesitate to respond via Twitter. “Robert De Niro, a person with a very low IQ, took too many punches from real boxers in the films. “I saw him last night and really thought he was stunned,” wrote the then-President of the United States.
The protagonists of “The Moon Killers”; Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro pose with the rest of the film’s cast during the Gotham Awards held at Cipriani Wall Street on the evening of November 27 in New York City. Mike Coppola (Getty Images for The Gotham Film)
Among other things, in February 2017, De Niro insisted on his desire, expressed on previous occasions, to beat Donald Trump: “Of course I still want to beat him.” “How dare he say the things he does!”, complained The Raging Bull star then appeared on the ABC show “The View”. A few days before Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th President of the United States, De Niro also referred on television to the threats by many to boycott the ceremony. “I think whatever people do, they have to do it to the end. Because a lot of crazy things are happening at the moment. Maybe it’s a play and we’ll see it sometime [Trump] Be in the office, but we all have to be on guard,” he said on the Today show. Given this history of statements, De Niro’s words on stage at the Gotham Awards, uttered not in anger but in disbelief and laughter at the situation, make all the more sense: “How dare they?”