Robert De Niro is responding to reports that The Irishman does not tell a true story.
The upcoming Netflix film is based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses, in which former mobster Frank Sheeran is interviewed about his involvement in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
While Frank tells his side of the story, FBI investigative reporters deny the truth to his story.
“[Investigator] Dan [Moldea] is a well-respected writer. I met him in D.C. for a writers thing where they get together every year. He said that we were getting conned. I wasn’t getting conned,” Robert told The Daily Beast.
He continued, “I have no problem with people disagreeing. He of course is an authority on Hoffa and everything else. As Marty says, we’re not saying we’re telling the actual story, we’re telling our story. I believed it.”
“I know one thing — I know all the stuff that Frank said, the descriptions of the places he was at, the way he talked, that’s all real. The way he describes what happened to Hoffa is a very plausible thing to me. I’d love to hear what actually happened to him. But this made a lot of sense to me,” Robert concluded.
The Irishman is now playing in select theater and debuts on Netflix on November 27th.
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