De Niro plays his character, Frank Sheeran, over the course of half a century.
De Niro is 76 in real life, so turning him back into his younger self was achieved using digital de-aging effects.
Besides the fact that The Irishman is the first movie to reunite director Martin Scorsese and star Robert De Niro in decades, cinephiles are most excited (or maybe most terrified) about the film’s use of digital effects.
The Irishman open in theaters on November 1, and then debut on Netflix on November 27.