Robert De Niro compared his psychopathic Taxi Driver character to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Sarajevo Film Festival on August 12.
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During a question-and answer session Saturday at the Sarajevo Film Festival, De Niro said, like Bickle, the U.S. Republican presidential candidate is where he shouldn’t be. The actor’s comments, first reported by the AP, came during a Q&A.
A restored version of Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” was also screened at the festival.
Making the link to the United States presidential race, De Niro said Trump, like Bickle, was where he should not be.
“I don’t know, it’s insane that people like Donald Trump”.
De Niro himself is in town at the Sarajevo Film Festival to pick up a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to film.
Robert De Niro in “Taxi Driver“.
Hundreds of taxi drivers around Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, have stuck posters of Robert De Niro on their vehicles in tribute to the actor, who opened the city’s film festival, with a screening of Taxi Driver.
Robert Anthony De Niro is an American who has starred in over 100 films.
“I mean, one of the things to me was just the irony of.at the end he’s back driving the cab, he’s. celebrated, which is kind of relevant in some way today too”.
Sarajevans responded with a frantic applause.
“But I think now they are really starting to push back, the media”, he said after noting that he felt like the news cycle granted Trump, 70, too much air time.
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