Robert De Niro Slams Donald Trump, Talks “The Banality Of Evil” After ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Premiere In Cannes
21.05.2023 - 12:59
/ deadline.com
“Taking risk at this age, what else can I do?” beamed Martin Scorsese at the Cannes press conference for Killers of the Flower Moon.
The director appeared with stars Leonardo Di Caprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone and leader of the Osage Nation, Chief Standing Bear, to talk about how they aimed to bring attention to the atrocities that happened with the oil rich Osage nation in the early 1920s, which was in the vicinity of the Black Wall Street massacre.
Robert De Niro drew a parallel to what occured with the Osage nation to the recent George Floyd tragedy, which occurred during the Donald Trump presidential administration, a politician who the Oscar winner has often blasted.
Commenting on his character William Hale, a lynchpin in the Osage Tulsa society, who appeared as a friend to the people, but was their foe, De Niro expounded, “I don’t a lot about my character. People do things. He has to be charming. He has win people. Why he betrays them all?”
“After George Floyd with systemic racism –that’s what it is– what happens there; what we never knew of the Black Street Massacre, it’s the banality of evil. It’s the things to we have to watch out for,” the Oscar winner continued.
Then drawing a laser on Trump, “We see it today, we all know how I’m going to talk about — but that guy is stupid. Hale was smart in many ways, but it’s systemic.”
“Look with Trump! There are people who think he can do a good job,” De Niro blasted.
Leonardo DiCaprio who plays Ernest Burkhart in the movie, who becomes embroiled as a culprit in the massacre and who falls for Lily Gladstone’s Osage native Mollie, said, “What Marty does incredible well, is that he expresses the most twisted, sinister character you can ever imagine, and bring