Robert De Niro lost his cool during an interview to promote his film "The Intern," as he stormed out of the interview due to a "negative inference."
The Oscar-winning actor took offense to the interviewer's line of questioning when Radio Times' Emma Brockes asked him about the Tribeca neighborhood, home to the New York film festival he co-founded, being overrun by bankers and whether the actor goes into "autopilot" mode when he is on set, according to The Guardian.
De Niro then asked the reporter to pause the recorder before he "pops up out of his chair, starts pacing madly and says he's cutting short the interview because of the 'negative inference' of what I just said," Brockes said, according to The Independent.
"What, about the bankers?!" she asked. De Niro answered, "All the way through. Negative inference." Brockes then asked what questions he was referring to: "The whole way through and I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it, darling." He said, according to The Wrap. "You're probably not even aware that you're doing it, the negative inference."
"I have to say, now that you're going on about it, it makes me think you were on autopilot and you're super-sensitive about it," Brockes said, to which he repeated, "I'm not doing this darling."
The journalist then told the "Raging Bull" actor she thought he was "very condescending." "Oh, you think 'darling' is condescending?" said the actor, before the interview was ended.
Robert De Niro stars alongside Anne Hathaway and Adam Devine in "The Intern," which is slated to hit theaters on Sept. 25.
