Who is he really? Interview attempts with Robert De Niro in 1977

Paul Gardner recounts his mostly unsuccessful efforts to get to know the star

Paul Gardner bagged himself a rare interview with Robert De Niro for the Observer Magazine of 7 August 1977 (Making It - the man from Mean Streets').

Gardner had met De Niro in Rome for the filming of Bertolucci's 1900 - an extravagant tapestry of Italian history' - but was rebuffed. Then three years later he caught up with him in Hollywood, De Niro having spent five months on Martin Scorsese's film musical New York, New York.

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