Robert De Niro ‘storms out of interview’ because of ‘negative inference’ in

De Niro’s mood changed when Brockes started asking the actor about New York’s Tribeca district, where the Godfather actor lives and has co-founded a festival. 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.

De Niro said Brockes had displayed “negative inference all the way through” the interview, and was therefore “not doing it. I’m not doing it, darling”.

She said: “It strikes me as odd that I get asked, ‘When are you going to have a family?’ and ‘How do you handle being in a marriage and being a successful actor?’ I don’t hear those questions being asked of my male contemporaries”. (I said) “I have to say, now that you’re going on about it, it makes me think you were on autopilot and you’re supersensitive about it”… “I’m not doing this, darling, ‘ he says”.

He is said to have continued to imply that she had an ulterior motive.

Brockes asked him at which point she had displayed such “negative inference” and he claimed it had been “all the way through”.

That’s what he reportedly told a reporter after he accused her of interviewing him with “a negative inference”.

De Niro is famously cagey in interviews, often offering monosyllabic responses.

Director Quentin Tarantino told Guru-Murthy “I’m shutting your butt down” after he asked him about film violence.

“The Intern” is written and directed by Nancy Meyers, and it features De Niro as the 70-year-old apprentice named Ben to Hathaway’s online-fashion-retailer CEO named Jules.

“Yet De Niro still behaves like he’s king of the hill, top of the heap, a number one”. She understands that isn’t the case for many women though, and she has started to realize that there aren’t enough of the sort of roles she’d really like to win. “So I think things are probably better than they ever have been, but there’s still many miles to go before we can call ourselves equal”. ‘Hang on. So where else am I being negative?’ “You’d expect that to factor into his consciousness in some level”. “I don’t know what else to do”, he laughed. I don’t think he wants to expose himself all the time.