Robert De Niro‘s representatives have quickly shut down rumors that the actor was seen yelling at pro-Palestinian protests this past week.
The video itself made the rounds on X beginning on Wednesday, with the footage showing De Niro yelling at an unseen group telling them to go home. “This is not a movie, this is real! That’s dangerous, and they say they’re going to do it again! Again! You don’t want that,” said De Niro in the clip. “None of us want that. C’mon. Let’s all get serious.”
The video was deemed to be De Niro yelling at protestors supporting Palestine in the ongoing Israel-Palestine War, but his representatives denied that, saying he was filming a scene for the upcoming Netflix series Zero Day.
“What was seen was erroneous reports of Robert De Niro supposedly yelling at a group of anti-Israeli protesters,” De Niro’s representative Stan Rosenfield said (via Variety). “De Niro’s lines were 100% scripted. The video was a small snippet from a rehearsal scene from the Netflix series Zero Day, which was being filmed on the streets of New York on April 27, where the character played by De Niro is confronting a group (all paid extras).”
“Someone copied the post and fabricated an entirely different and bogus meaning,” Rosenfield went on to explain.
What is Zero Day?
Zero Day is a conspiracy thriller created and executive-produced by Noah Oppenheim, Eric Newman, and Michael S. Schmidt. In addition to De Niro, the series will also star Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, and Angela Bassett.
“The series asks the question on everyone’s mind — how do we find truth in a world in crisis, one seemingly being torn apart by forces outside our control? And in an era rife with conspiracy theory and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps even of our own imagining,” reads the synopsis.
