00:00What am I going to do?
00:01What am I going to play, golf?
00:04You know, I'm a theatre girl.
00:05I'm supposed to be changing all the time.
00:08It is a genuine honour to sit here with you both.
00:11I'm going to start with you, Mr. De Niro, sir.
00:13Because, honestly, when I first heard about the film,
00:16I thought you were going to be playing brothers when I heard you were playing both roles.
00:19And then to see you playing two childhood friends,
00:22how flattering is it that they want you to play
00:25two completely different characters in the same film?
00:28Well, my agent said he thought of the idea.
00:31And he told Erwin, and Erwin was then pushing it with me,
00:34about why don't you try and play both parts?
00:37And I said, let me think about that.
00:39It's interesting and it would be another reason to do it.
00:42Other than wanting to work with everybody again.
00:44But I've sort of done so many of these types of parts.
00:47And I said, let me try. It would be interesting.
00:50And working with Barry, knowing him, it would be good.
00:53So, that's how it was.
00:55Deborah, I have to say, I grew up with Will and Grace.
00:57So, I've seen you in a very different light for most of my life, I feel.
01:02So, did playing a mob wife come easy to you?
01:06Because this was something I hadn't really imagined for you.
01:09But you were great.
01:10Thank you. Thank you.
01:12I was absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity, honestly.
01:16Because it is such a departure.
01:19But, you know, I'm a theatre girl.
01:21I'm supposed to be changing all the time.
01:25And there was so much research.
01:28It was so inspiring that this was a real woman.
01:32So, to be able to read all the books and hear all the stories about their relationship.
01:38It was very fertile.
01:40And then, of course, to be able to work with Bob just made everything feel really, really safe and special.
01:51It's changing your demeanour for the two characters, for Frank and Vito.
01:56Did it take a lot of effort to switch between them?
02:00I mean, you are a legend of your craft.
02:02So, I feel like maybe not.
02:04No, I mean, I had to find...
02:07And Barry Levinson was concerned.
02:09Barry said to me, you know, to make sure we have enough of a difference between us.
02:15I said, I know, I know.
02:17I'm figuring that out now.
02:19And when we were doing the make-up test, because we did a lot of make-up tests.
02:26But, yeah, it was a thing that...
02:29And I studied a lot of the...
02:31As much as footage there was of the two characters, which there wasn't as much as I thought there was.
02:37We kept looking and looking. We just couldn't find it.
02:42But it was enough to help me a lot.
02:44And in here, Frank does toy with the idea of retirement at some point.
02:50Do you think about retiring? Are you very happy about going through?
02:53I'm okay, because what are you going to do? What am I going to do?
02:57What, am I going to play golf?
02:58We don't want him to retire.
03:00I mean, that's very true.
03:02But how about you? Do you think...
03:04Or do you want to carry on having a career like...
03:07I mean, if I can continue to have the opportunity to work with, you know, the top of the art, the craft,
03:16and to basically feel like a perpetual student by learning from people along the way,
03:22I can't imagine any other future for myself.
03:26And we're very happy that you haven't retired, because you are spoiling us right now with the amount of projects.
03:31And we're laughing it up. We're laughing it up.
03:34So, lovely to meet you both. And good luck with it.
03:37Thank you so much.
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