Viral clip of Robert De Niro yelling at anti-Israel protesters is actually a rehearsal for a Netflix series

A video of Robert de Niro shouting at protesters has gone viral on the internet and has been interpreted on social media as the American actor’s pro-Israel demonstration is actually a rehearsal for a Netflix series, the carrier said. according to the star, Stan Rosenfield, according to News.ro.

In the video, which has been retweeted by numerous pro-Israel accounts, the actor exclaims: “It’s not a movie, it’s reality! It’s dangerous and they said they would do it again.”

Numerous netizens saw in this gesture a support for Israel in its war against Hamas.

“The articles stating that Robert De Niro shouted at a group of anti-Israel demonstrators are false. De Niro’s lines were completely scripted,” he insisted in a statement published in the American press.

“The video is a short fragment of a rehearsal of a scene from the Netflix series “Zero Day”, which was filmed on April 27 in New York. In it, De Niro’s character confronts a group, all paid extras. Someone copied the video and hijacked it to give it another meaning that is completely wrong,” Rosenfield insisted.

Netflix also confirmed that Robert de Niro’s speech was included in the script of the series and has nothing to do with the conflict between Israel and Hamas. In Zero Day, Robert de Niro stars as a former US president who is forced out of retirement to take part in a commission of inquiry into a cyber attack.

Violence on US College Campuses

“Zero Day,” which is Robert de Niro’s first series, is directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, best known for the “Homeland” series.

De Niro stars alongside Jesse Plemons (who appears in the viral video), Lizzy Caplan, Joan Allen, Connie Britton, Matthew Modine and Angela Bassett.

The video with Robert de Niro went viral at a particularly tense time in the United States.

In recent days, the police intervened in several campuses in Los Angeles and New York, where a large number of students protested against the war in Gaza.

Hundreds of police entered the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) after dark on Wednesday and began to evacuate a camp of pro-Palestinian demonstrators attacked the previous night by supporters of Israel, writes Reuters.