Robert De Niro is not known for opening up about his personal life to the media but in a recent interview De Niro opened up about his family, his father and some of his most famous roles that are still discussed in the film industry today.
People magazine detailed that De Niro father passed away in 1993 and he was a two-time Oscar winner and De Niro described him as being "loving and affectionate."
De Niro will be honoring his dad during the upcoming HBO documentary Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro Sr., which will air on June 9th. De Niro took time to reflect about what it was like growing up with his dad. "But he wasn't the kind of dad who played baseball. He liked to take me to the movies on 42nd Street: King Kong, Beauty and the Beast," said De Niro.
The film does reveal that De Niro's father was gay but that it was not well known in the business or amongst close individuals.
"He never told me," he says. "He was very private about it."
Variety reported that De Niro explained that his project and documentary was a "love letter" to his father. The documentary focuses on the life and work of De Niro Sr.
Now De Niro is a father of his own, he took time to reflect on what he hopes for his children and what they will get out of this documentary. "I want my children to see what their grandfather did and how he lived," he says. "It was for the family."