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May 18, 2026

ROBERT DE NIRO was rejected for the lead role in director TERRY GILLIAM's 1985 dystopian sci-fi dark comedy, Brazil, but he was such a fan of the project he took the smaller part of Archibald “Harry” Tuttle.

OFF-SCREEN DRAMA

Universal Studios head Sid Sheinberg hated the finished film and refused to release it. That’s when De Niro hatched a plan for a publicity stunt he hoped would force the exe

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