Robert De Niro Explains Censored Gotham Awards Speech: Apple Asked Martin Scorsese If I ‘Could Dial It Down’

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1. > As Variety originally reported, De Niro began reading his speech only to discover that it had been edited by Apple — the studio behind “Killers of the Flower Moon” — without his approval.

   >The actor, who plays William Hale in Martin Scorsese’s recent feature, opened up to Rolling Stone about the mishap. He explained that the speech was going to spotlight the censorship of David Grann’s book “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Murders of the Osage and the Birth of the FBI”

   Apple reacting to criticism of censorship with more censorship, love it.

2. De Niro did Batista dirty and it’s such bullshit. Big Dave was so thrilled to work with De Niro and got dicked around. It was such bullshit power play politicking.

3. I love Goodfellas and Casino but I don’t take political advice from my plumber just because he is really good at fixing the shitter.

4. To care about this is admitting you have no life