Academy Award winner Robert De Niro is one of the greatest actors of all time and he opened up a little bit about his brief involvement with the film he ultimately did not take Big.
On Monday, Deniro dropped by The Tonight Show, where he was asked a few true-or-false questions by host Jimmy Fallon. One of the queries involved the 1988 classic directed by the late Penny Marshall, starring Tom Hanks.
De Niro, shocking some in the late-night audience, said it was true. He was cast to play Josh, the lead version of a teen who makes a wish to instantly become an adult. The actor shed some light on what happened.
“We had a thing with the negotiation, the thing, so it went the way it went,”
“So, it’s fine.”
Among the other questions was whether he ad-libbed his arguably most iconic line in any of his films, Travis Bickle’s “Are you talkin’ to me?” in Taxi Driver. Again, De Niro said
“Sometimes from odd places,”
“I remember years ago in L.A., down in the Valley, a bunch of kids pulled up next to me at a red light and say, ‘Are you talkin’ to me?’ I don’t know how they recognized me.”
