Leonardo DiCaprio launched Robert De Niro to a Cannes Movie Pageant viewers as somebody he’s all the time appeared as much as, whereas honoring the Academy Award successful star with an honorary Palme d’Or.
De Niro used the chance to guarantee his French viewers the U.S. wouldn’t succumb to its “philistine” president, whom he has lambasted many occasions up to now.
“In my country, we are fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted,” De Niro stated. “That affects all of us here because the arts are democratic.”
De Niro was being honored practically 50 years after his 1976 movie “Taxi Driver” received the Palme d’Or for its depiction of a deranged New York Metropolis cabbie plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate.
“America’s philistine president has had himself appointed head of one of our premier cultural institutions,” De Niro opined.
He additional warned that Trump plans to chop funding to arts and training, whereas threatening to place a tariff on international movies.
“Let that sink in,” De Niro stated. “You can’t put a price on creativity, but apparently you can put a tariff on it.”
In line with De Niro, 81, the president’s views on the humanities represents a menace each at house and overseas. He advised fellow filmmakers they’re being focused for representing a “threat to autocrats and fascists” and inspired peaceable however agency resistance to such issues.
De Niro has taken quite a few swings at Trump lately together with a 2018 rant the place he expressed a need to “punch him in the face.”
Trump has referred to De Niro as a “whacko” actor whose finest days are behind him.
