{"id":105092,"date":"2024-06-16T08:03:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T08:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/16\/billy-crystal-poked-fun-at-robert-de-niros-acting-on-set-of-analyze-this\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T08:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T08:03:55","slug":"billy-crystal-poked-fun-at-robert-de-niros-acting-on-set-of-analyze-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/16\/billy-crystal-poked-fun-at-robert-de-niros-acting-on-set-of-analyze-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Crystal poked fun at Robert De Niro&apos;s acting on set of &apos;Analyze This&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-06-16\" datetime=\"1718525035\" pubdate=\"\">16 June 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/billy-crystal\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,billy-crystal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billy Crystal<\/a> teased Robert De Niro about his acting abilities on the set of \u2018Analyze This\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Billy Crystal teased Robert De Niro about his acting abilities on the set of \u2018Analyze This\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The comic, 76, and the \u2018Raging Bull\u2019 Oscar-winner, 80, co-starred in the 1999 mafia comedy, which saw Billy playing a therapist roped in to help Robert\u2019s struggling mob boss character Paul Vitti with depression issues.<\/p>\n<p>Billy said he ended up teasing the Hollywood veteran after he took him aside and asked him to use his comedy expertise to give him advice on his performance if he thought there was a way he could be making it funnier.<\/p>\n<p>Billy made the admission during a talk alongside Robert at the Spring Studios\u2019 Indeed Theater in New York City after a screening of their mafia comedy.<\/p>\n<p>He said in their question-and-answer session, hosted by 69-year-old broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/gayle-king\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,gayle-king\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gayle King<\/a>: \u201c(Robert) whispers (on set), because it\u2019s like, mafia guys they speak in whispers because it makes you come to them.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAnd he says, \u2018Listen. If you see anything I can do funnier, better, take me aside and just let me know.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201c(I remembered thinking), \u2018Oh my God. What an amazing, generous thing to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd in the pair\u2019s next take Billy took advantage of Robert\u2019s request by poking fun at the star.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added: \u201cI go, \u2018Come here. Is that all you got?\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAnd then we just laughed and we just, throughout the whole movie you wouldn\u2019t think that we would just laugh as much as we did.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard to get through some of the scenes because they\u2019re really funny, and he was extraordinary to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nRobert\u2019s mob boss suffers a panic attack in the movie and reluctantly seeks the help of psychiatrist Ben Sobel, played by Billy.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe film was a commercial hit and topped the box office on its opening weekend. <\/p>\n<p>\nIt also spawned the 2002 sequel \u2018Analyze That\u2019, in which Robert\u2019s character is released from prison into the custody of Billy\u2019s psychiatrist character.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/billy-crystal-poked-fun-robert-niros-acting-set-analyze-1401405.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 June 2024 Billy Crystal teased Robert De Niro about his acting abilities on the set of \u2018Analyze This\u2019. Billy Crystal teased Robert De Niro about his acting abilities on the set of \u2018Analyze This\u2019 The comic, 76, and the \u2018Raging Bull\u2019 Oscar-winner, 80, co-starred in the 1999 mafia comedy, which saw Billy playing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8362,8294,399,8363,1812],"class_list":{"0":"post-105092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-ben-sobel","9":"tag-billy-crystal","10":"tag-gayle-king","11":"tag-paul-vitti","12":"tag-robert-de-niro"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}