“When you get older, you have to be prepared for unexpected things,” Robert De Niro said after injuring his leg on the set of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon in Oklahoma.
Robert De Niro recently injured his leg on the set of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon in Oklahoma.
But according to the two-time Academy Award winner, 77, the show must go on, even amid the “excruciating” pain.
“I tore my quad somehow,” De Niro told IndieWire, giving an update on his recovery.
“It’s just a simple stepping over something and I just went down,” he said. “The pain was excruciating and now I have to get it fixed. But it happens, especially when you get older, you have to be prepared for unexpected things. But it’s manageable.”
The actor also noted that he didn’t think the injury would affect his performance as cattleman William Hale. “What I’m doing with Scorsese in Killers of the Flower Moon, I’m pretty much a sedentary character in a way. I don’t move around a lot, thank God. So we’ll manage,” De Niro added. “I just have to get the procedure done and keep it straight in a certain position and let it heal.
On Thursday, De Niro flew home to New York City, where he sought medical attention. A rep for the actor previously told PEOPLE that production was not delayed as he was already scheduled to depart that day, taking two weeks off from filming.
“While at his on-location home in Oklahoma for the filming of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Robert De Niro injured his quadriceps muscle which will be treated medically in New York,” the rep said in a statement. “This will not affect production as he was not scheduled to film again for another three weeks.”
Hope so this does not deter him from the work he is doing. And he recovers fast and with all that vigor he gets back to work.