Robert de niro father gay

Robert De Niro is opening up publicly about his late father's struggles with his sexual orientation. All rights reserved. It was my responsibility to make a documentary about him," the actor said in the interview. He added, "My father wasn't a bad father, or absent.

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He was absent in some ways. While De Niro was rocketing to Hollywood's top tier, his father was living his final days as a starving artist in Paris. He adored me… as I do my kids. I felt obligated. Discussing his father's sexuality, the Oscar winner said, "Yeah, he probably was [conflicted about being gay], being from that generation, especially from a small town upstate.

He was also quite hot, which is clearly a strong family trait. He was very loving. I was not aware, much, of it. For those not in the know, De Niro’s father, the visual artist Robert De Niro Sr., was gay and sadly closeted throughout his career.

Though he did not spend a lot of time with his dad, who was divorced from his mother, poet and painter Virginia Holton Admiral, the actor said he was still close to him. In a new article for Out magazine titled "Robert De Niro: Me and My Gay Dad," the year-old.

Robert De Niro says it was his “responsibility” to make a documentary about his father, artist Robert De Niro Sr., he told Out magazine in an interview. My mother didn't want to talk about things in general, and you're not interested when you're a certain age.

I wish we had spoken about it much more. In the documentary, which premieres June 9 on HBO, De Niro recalls memories of his father's despair over his sexuality and his overlooked body of work.