Robert De Niro walks out of Radio Times interview

That last question set off the 72-year-old “Godfather” star, who oddly asked Brockes to turn off her tape recorder.

“What, about the bankers?!’ I am amazed”.

Robert De Niro reportedly walked out of an interview for his movie The Intern. ‘All the way through. As the septuagenarian who rejoins the workforce and immediately wins over the entire office, including the boss herself, De Niro’s elderly office boy is the embodiment of the gentlemen of yore, who are increasingly being replaced, rather ineptly, by impressionable millennials.

“What, about the bankers?!” she asks, to which De Niro responds: “All the way through”. When the actress starts weeping at what an honour it was to work with him (“excuse me – sniff – I hate when this happens!”), De Niro looks baffled and vaguely appalled.

“I’m shutting your butt down”. I’m not even listening to what he’s saying. “They’re different sports”. “I don’t know why it doesn’t exist”. Ireland is not in the UK. “When I’m 80?” he replies.

“It’s the morning, don’t be mean!”

Anne Hathaway has moved on since her days as a mere assistant in The Devil Wears Prada and has become a bright and shining CEO in her upcoming comedy The Intern. “And some people do, you know – playing golf, going around and visiting all their grandkids”, says the grandfather of four.

In order to understand the life of such an executive, the Oscar victor said she consulted a number of figures with experience at online fashion retailers.

Dermot: How do you think the acts got on? “He has a great skill in closing down even the most open-ended questions”, she said. I believed a girl of her generation would go into this kind of work. The (studios) thought I couldn’t do anything other than The Princess Diaries and I wanted to prove them wrong.

Still, he’s not the first celeb to struggle his way though a chat with a journo. When she asked him to clarify, he replied, “All the way through”.

De Niro said: “I’m not doing it, darling”.

Langsford continued the conversation by asking if he would be touring the United Kingdom soon which was met with a long explanation about how he would not return, for tax reasons. As he pulled his microphone off he said: “It was all getting a little Diane Sawyer.”

In case you haven’t spotted the movie trailer yet, The Intern is a Nancy Meyers film with a premise that is perhaps more common than we think. “I could see it going in that direction, but it didn’t and I was lucky…”

“What on Earth are you talking about?”

During the Toronto worldwide Film Festival Graeme Coleman from the LGBT Site Daily Xtra pressed actor Hardy about why he has tended to deflect attention from his sexual orientation. “I want to play interesting characters-that’s what matters most to me”.

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Which is exactly why he said yes to The Intern. Brockes explained how in an interview as bad as this one, someone is bound to leave.