Appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, De Niro expressed his admiration for Cuomo, saying: “He’s doing what a president should do.”
Robert De Niro has said he would be keen to play New York state governor Andrew Cuomo in a future movie about the coronavirus epidemic, as the actor made another blistering attack on Donald Trump.
Describing the government response to the pandemic as “appalling”, De Niro said: “Everybody knows what [Trump’s] game is, it’s all about him getting re-elected.”
In 2019, De Niro told the Guardian: “I can’t wait to see him in jail.