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“What a guy,” De Niro, 79, told PEOPLE Wednesday at his press junket for the upcoming 2023Tribeca Film Festival, when asked about the news of 83-year-old Pacino expanding his family as well. “Go Al, God bless him.”
De Niro has had a busy agenda as of late on top of his daughter’s birth: the actor’s new movie with Sebastian ManiscalcoAbout My Fatheropened in theaters last Friday, and earlier in May he world premiered his new movie Killers of the Flower Moon at theCannes Film Festival.
On top of all that, New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival — which De Niro and Jane Rosenthal founded in 2002 — kicks off on June 7 and will close with a 30th anniversary screening of the actor’s 1993 directorial debutA Bronx Tale, which he told PEOPLE he has not watched in 30 years.
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“I do it, I manage,” he said when asked how he juggles it all. De Niro added that he only “sometimes” rewatches his past works, which include the likes of 1974’sThe Godfather: Part IIand 1995’sHeat, both of which costarred his friend Pacino.
“Sometimes I’ll just see something on television and start watching if I happen to pass and see that it’s playing,” he said. “That happens — doesn’t happen as much these days, I guess. I mean, everything’s available, you just look for it and get it, so who’s watching it at my house, a movie that I’m [in]?”
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At the New York premiere of his most recent filmAbout My Fatherearlier this month, the two-timeOscarwinner toldExtra, “I’m okay with it. I’m good with it,” when asked whether he is excited to become a father for the seventh time, though he added it"never gets easier."
De Niro and Pacino met in their 20s, more than 50 years ago, with Pacino tellingGQof De Niro during a joint interview in 2019, “I remember the meeting very clearly. Unbelievably, I saw this guy, I thought, Wow, he’s got such charisma. He wasn’t doing anything. He was just walking. Remember? You know, he wasBob.But you felt something from him.”
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In addition to De Niro’s newborn daughter, theGoodfellasstarhas six adult children: Drena, Raphael, Julian, Aaron, Elliot and Helen. Pacino, meanwhile, shares daughterJulie Marie, 33, with ex-girlfriend Jan Tarrant. He also shares 22-year-old twinsAnton and Oliviawith exBeverly D’Angelo, whom he dated from 1997 to 2003.
The Tribeca Film Festival runs throughout New York City from June 7 to June 18.
source: people.com
