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‘We have to stop what’s going on, it’s insane’: Robert De Niro on battling age, apathy and Trump

As the actor receives an honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes film festival, he talks about why he couldn’t look at himself if he didn’t speak out about the US president and politics

He embraces Leonardo DiCaprio, turns to the mic and lets fly: celebrating the event as a haven for art, democratic, inclusive and therefore a threat to autocrats and fascists. And yet when we think of De Niro’s key roles, we’re more likely to picture him behind a taxi-cab wheel, or wielding a baseball bat as bullish Al Capone, or bounding on stage as wheedling Rupert Pupkin. De Niro has starred in two Palme d’Or winners (1976’s Taxi Driver and 1986’s The Mission) and was last at the festival with Killers of the Flower Moon two years ago.

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