A Tempest in the Hollywood Junket Teapot
Are you inferring to me?! Why that recent De Niro incident is no big deal.
Hollywood press junkets are an exercise in unctuous PR, something veteran journalist Emma Brockes fully understands.
Here’s what she told The Guardian in the wake of Robert De Niro abruptly ending her allotted Radio Times magazine interview time at a recent Warner Bros. junket for comedy The Intern, opening Friday:
Brockes said she was astonished at the actor’s reaction, and “felt sympathy” for De Niro, who had sat through a long day of multiple interviews with members of the foreign press, as is commonplace when promoting a Hollywood film.
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