Yesterday, Monday, May 2, he shot so many scenes that on set he was seen wearing pajamas and a very elegant jacket as well. Photo by Reuters
There are twelve almost uninterrupted filming hours for Robert DeNiro. This is his first day on the set of Whateverthe comedy series directed by Gaston Duprat Y Mariano Cohnand who the protagonist is Louis Brandoni with the actor Ang Ninong Part II, cape of fear, The sniper Y My girlfriend’s family.
Yesterday, Monday, May 2, was the first day of shooting for Robert De Niro. The actor arrived on time at the mansion in the congress neighborhood, on Matheu Street, almost at the corner of Rivadavia Avenue. That location is the house where Vincent (De Niro) first lived during his stay in Buenos Aires, but it is also owned by the character played by Luis Brandoni (Manuel).
Exactly the scenes were shot there, in a mansion owned by an Argentine artist and architect, and on a long day, which lasted nearly 12 hours, De Niro and Brandoni were almost entirely starring. And the character he plays also intervened Silvia KuticaManuel’s former partner.
Yesterday, Monday, he was with Luis Brandoni and Silvia Kutica in the film. Clarin Image File
the actor of wild bull Y Taxi driver He arrived around 7 a.m., a task that is likely to be repeated in all of this, his first week of filming.
De Niro has a well -groomed beard, as his role is that of a prestigious and somewhat bohemian writer. They shot so many different scenes -which can be seen in different episodes-, that he was seen wearing pajamas and robes as well as a very elegant jacket.
De Niro arrived on time on the set of filming in the Congress neighborhood. With the directors and with Brandoni he speaks Italian. Photo by AP
Your character speaks mixed languages: he does it in English, in Spanish and even in Italian. De Niro explicitly asked to do some of his parts in Spanish, and when he talked to the directors, Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, and with his friend Luis Brandoni, he usually did it in Italian.
Zero Divism
De Niro acts like a professional in all letters, and there is no divisiveness, to the point that on the set of shooting it is strange that he is very open and permissive when, for example, he has to repeat the take, something else well -known Argentine. actors don’t Usually they like it at all.
The New Yorker did not come with his own security people, but the Argentine production assigned him surveillance agents who accompanied the actor from the Irish And they did not leave him alone for a moment. He loves to insult in Spanish, in “Argentine”, and yesterday he asked the true meaning of every bad word.
De Niro on Sunday went to see works of Argentine art at the National Museum of Fine Arts. But they won’t be filming there. All right, Brandon. Photo by RSPhotos
De Niro was accompanied by his former agent, Manny -Emanuel Nuñez-, a Cuban who had lived in Argentina for 50 years, in Buenos Aires, and had been the agent of Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Michael Mann and Raúl Rizzo.
Chorizo steak and flan with sweet
So during the filming break for lunch, he didn’t go alone, but he shared the table with the technical and production team. And he ate both of them: chorizo steak with different salads and, for dessert, flan with dulce de leche.
In total, yesterday there were about 120 people among the members of the technical, production and actor teams, as well as people from Disney -the series will be broadcast in Argentina by Star+-and from the company of production Metrovisión.
With Jeremy Irons, when he came to shoot “The Mission”, in Iguazú. Clarin Image File
To get an idea of the size of the production, it was shot using four cameras.
The famous visitor truly loves Argentina and especially Buenos Aires. Owner of several restaurants in different cities around the world, not just in the United States, he really likes Buenos Aires food: he has a weakness for horse-riding chorizo steak, so the Monday menu selection. and the series Whatever certainly speaks of porteña gastronomy: Manuel was a culinary critic who had his moments of luxury, and now he’s pretty run down.
Scriptwriters Cohn, Duprat and Emanuel Diez would have been inspired by renowned gastronomic critics Miguel Brascó and Gato Dumas to recreate some aspects of Manuel.
In 2008, with “Bust on a table with a yellow chair”, in Bilbao, in the exhibition dedicated to the work of his father, Robert de Niro Sr. Photo EFE
The reason for your visit to MNBA
On Sunday, a day after arriving in Buenos Aires aboard a private plane, Robert De Niro asked to see works of Argentine art. That is why it was seen at the National Museum of Fine Arts, on Avenida Del Libertador, which will not be the location of the filming. He also doesn’t rehearse there.
The actor’s father, of the same name, was an artist, and he loved it dearly. Robert De Niro Sr. now, May 3, would have been 100 years old, if he had not died on May 3, 1993, the day he turned 71 years old, a victim of prostate cancer.
Robert recently honored him in a documentary, Remembering Artist Robert De Niro Sr., Only 40 minutes. In it, the actor honors his father by reading his letters and intimate diaries, which showcase the actor’s professional and personal battles. It’s from 2013 and produced by HBO.
What are you shooting now?
It is not yet known when the scenes will be shot with Enrique Piñeyro, who has now made headlines for piloting his own Boeing 787 on solidarity missions to evacuate refugees from Ukraine. His role was that of a dealer.
For now, Tuesday, May 3, the shooting plan indicates that the scenes will be shot on a relatively dilapidated grill, in a Buenos Aires neighborhood, located about twenty blocks from where they were yesterday, Monday . Manuel and Vincent, as we have already taught, usually walk and eat, walk and eat: they color the city on foot.
Source: Clarin
