The actor who made an enemy of Robert De Niro

Most people avoid getting on Robert De Niro's bad side, but one co-star has turned it into a career-defining personality trait. Read more here.
The actor who made an enemy of Robert De Niro

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Wed 22 January 2025 20:15, UK

If youā€™re an actor in Hollywood trying to make your way to the A-list, the first rule of ascending the pyramid is not to piss off the people at the top. Even if youĀ alreadyĀ are a household name, itā€™s best not to get on the bad side of anyone of equal or greater fame.Ā Itā€™s just not a good look and could hurt your long-term prospects.Ā Consequently, ifĀ Robert De NiroĀ has enemies, mostĀ of themĀ arenā€™t foolish enough to make their animosity public.Ā 

It is quite possible that there are co-stars with horror stories about the Oscar winner. As a noted method actor, he is famous for taking his profession very seriously (at least until the mid-2000s), and his techniques for getting into character could conceivably irritate co-stars. He had a rocky first encounter with Joaquin Phoenix during the production of Todd Phillipsā€™ Joker, but that had more to do with Phoenixā€™s reluctance to do a table read than De Niroā€™s eccentric behaviour.

However, there is one actor who despises De Niro and has made it one of the defining traits of his public persona. In 1987, Mickey Rourke starred opposite the Oscar winner in the neo-noir Angel Heart and took an immediate dislike to him. The problem was that the Raging Bull star didnā€™t want Rourke to talk to him. He wanted to put aside all the collegial chit-chat so that he could stay in character.

Rourke was hurt by this andĀ saidĀ that he believed De Niro wasĀ actuallyĀ retaliating against him for giving acting advice. ā€œI took him to school,ā€ theĀ 9Ā½Ā Weeks actor claimed. ā€œBefore that, no other actor took him to schoolā€.Ā 

Ultimately, Rourke acknowledged that being rebuffed by De Niro was just painful. ā€œIt hurt my feelings a little bit ā€™cause I looked up to him,ā€ he said. ā€œI donā€™t look up to him no more; I look through him. I came up from the shit. He doesnā€™t know that life. I lived that fucking life, so every time I look him in the face, I look right through his asshole.ā€

Itā€™s unclear how often Rourke has had the opportunity to look at (or through) De Niro lately though, because he was also quick to accuse his one-time co-star of blocking his involvement in Martin Scorseseā€™s 2019 film, The Irishman, more than three decades after their fractious encounter in Angel Heart.

Claiming that Scorsese wanted him to be in the film, Rourke asserted, ā€œThe casting person told my manager that Robert De Niro said he refused to work with me in a movie.ā€Ā 

ThisĀ seemed to comeĀ as a surprise to everyone involved in the film. De Niroā€™s representative issued a statement saying that, according to TheĀ IrishmanĀ producers and the filmā€™s casting director, ā€œMickey RourkeĀ was never askedĀ to be inĀ The IrishmanĀ nor was he ever even thought of, discussed or considered to be in the movie.ā€

The fact that this statement essentially invalidated Rourkeā€™s David and Goliath tale of a decades-long feud with one of Hollywoodā€™s biggest stars must have been even more painful than learning that Scorsese hadnā€™t actually been considering him for a role.

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