Writer-director Nancy Meyers has scored a number of commercial successes (including It’s Complicated and Something’s Gotta Give) by going against the grain and making movies centered on women and aimed at older audiences.
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Chelsea Handler has never been one to mince her words, so when she has to interview Piers Morgan she can’t branding him “a nightmare”, “obnoxious”, “so annoying” and referring to his “molester eyes”.
Robert De Niro has become the latest actor to join the growing list of stars who can’t make it all the way to the scheduled end of an interview in one friendly piece. Nancy Meyers gets me, and I’m a De Niro lover. He brushed off the comment, asking: “Oh, you think “darling” is condescending?” Robert De Niro played Jack Walsh, a foul-mouthed bounty hunter tasked to bring Mafia accountant Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin) back to L.A. It was supposed to be an easy assignment, but what followed next was a series of cross-country pursuits that involved the FBI and the mob.
The three of us crack up and blurt, all together and at once: “I want to go see that!” Meyers does a masterful job of establishing a quick pace to the movie that keeps it interesting.
The “Godfather” star, a double Oscar victor with fifty years in the business under his belt, has faced powerful antagonists both on and off the screen, but it appears he was little prepared for the almighty force of the…
Brockes says she does not blame De Niro for the awkward encounter “because nobody wants to be there for these choreographed junket interviews”. “They all have such distinct character, truly reflecting the personalities and taste of the characters in the films”, says OKL co-founder Susan Feldman. Patron is reportedly one of De Niro’s favorites.
Given the vacuity of the script, it must be admitted that Hathaway achieves something of a triumph. These films have not always fared as well with critics as with audiences, and you can expect the same divided response to her latest feel-good comedy, The Intern. Ben steps in for Jules’ personal chauffeur (her on-trend preference for cycling, cited in introductory scenes, is inexplicably forgotten), getting to know her young daughter Paige (JoJo Kushner) and affable stay-at-home husband Matt (deftly played by Anders Holm) in the process.
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De Niro ended the interview there, saying “I’m not doing this darling”. After all, while millennials get most of the workplace attention these days, there is obviously a lot of older workers with a lot of knowledge to share and vice versa for that matter. From the sharp white corners of About The Fit’s warehouse-conversion offices to the ivory calico textures of Jules’ gorgeously refurbished brownstone, all “The Intern’s” interiors radiate a most exclusive kind of expense.
