Robert De Niro slams Flickr boss

Robert De Niro reportedly lashed out at Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield while presenting an award to Angelina Jolie at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards on Wednesday.

According to Page Six, the 72-year-old actor lost his cool after Stewart accepted an award on stage and joked about all the “supermodels and movie stars” in the crowd, making it seem like he was the only “nerd” in attendance. He then called out the Intern actor, who sat in the audience. “I watched Godfather II on the plane,” the 42-year-old tech guru said at the time. “When you killed Don Fanucci — I liked that.”

Robert, however, didn’t find the humour in Stewart’s speech. During his turn on stage, he slammed the Canadian-born CEO for his comments.

“Whoever the last speaker was — I thought you were a bit condescending to us actors… celebrities,” Robert reportedly said, via Page Six. “I’m gonna go on record with you just to say that. And I don’t give a f**k who you are."

Stewart laughed off the awkward incident. In fact, he couldn’t contain his excitement about it. He captioned a Twitter pic of the actor mid-speech: I just literally got trash-talked by Robert De Niro. “I don’t know who the F--K you are.” #lifegoals (sic).
 

 

 

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