De Niro’s agent/publicist asked Jimmy Kimmel Live! not to go there vis-à-vis his choice of roles.
For now, you’ll just have to make do with Goodfellas actor Illeana Douglas’s theory as to ‘what happened to De Niro’.
Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s ‘Mean Tweets’ segment exists solely to humiliate actors and thus endear us to them, drilling down to the criticisms of them and their work that journalists will often steer clear of.
The first step is to always contort your face like you just heard your Grandma fart.”