Robert De Niro shut down Leonardo DiCaprio on Killers of the Flower Moon set | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Tomorrow Martin Scorsese’s newest historic epic Killers of the Flower Moon hits cinemas.

It’s the first time ever that the acclaimed director’s common collaborators Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio have starred reverse one another in a single of his feature-length films.

Based on the 2017 historical past guide of the identical title, the 3-and-a-half-hour blockbuster focuses on a set of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation throughout the Nineteen Twenties, which had been dedicated after oil was found on the tribal land.

De Niro stars as William King Hale, a real-life political boss of Osage County, who made a fortune by means of cattle ranching and unfair commerce with Native Americans.

Meanwhile, Leo performs his nephew Ernest Burkhart, who’s married to Lily Gladstone’s Mollie, a member of the Osage Nation.

Early evaluations from Cannes and the London Film Festival reward Leo’s efficiency as a career-best.

However, facets of his improvisations on the set of Killers of the Flower Moon ended up critically irritating each De Niro and Scorsese.

The director shared in a brand new interview how he and the older actor would react to this continuous methodology of Leo’s.

Speaking with The Wall Street Journal, Scorsese mentioned how Leo’s set discussions and dialogue improvisations had been “endless, endless, endless”.

The 80-year-old director elaborated: “Then Bob [De Niro] didn’t want to talk. Every now and then, Bob and I would look at each other and roll our eyes a little bit. And we’d tell [Leo]‘You don’t need that dialogue.’”

Killers of the Flower Moon is out in cinemas on Friday.