Billy Crystal teased Robert De Niro about his acting abilities on the set of ‘Analyze This’. The comic, 76, and the ‘Raging Bull’ Oscar-winner, 80, co-starred in the 1999 mafia comedy, which saw Billy playing a therapist roped in to help Robert’s struggling mob boss character Paul Vitti with depression issues. Billy said he ended up teasing the Hollywood veteran after he took him aside and asked him to use his comedy expertise to give him advice on his performance if he thought there was a way he could be making it funnier.
Billy made the admission during a talk alongside Robert at the Spring Studios’ Indeed Theater in New York City after a screening of their mafia comedy. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. He said in their question-and-answer session, hosted by 69-year-old broadcaster Gayle King: “(Robert) whispers (on set), because it’s like, mafia guys they speak in whispers because it makes you come to them.
“And he says, ‘Listen. If you see anything I can do funnier, better, take me aside and just let me know.’ “(I remembered thinking), ‘Oh my God.
What an amazing, generous thing to do.’” And in the pair’s next take Billy took advantage of Robert’s request by poking fun at the star. He added: “I go, ‘Come here.
Is that all you got?’ “And then we just laughed and we just, throughout the whole movie you wouldn’t think that we would just laugh as much as we did. “It’s hard to .
