'I don’t want to criticize Director Mueller as an actor, so let’s just say my approach to the part would have been different,' the actor wrote in an essay for 'The Washington Post' about how the former special counsel handled himself during the hearings last week.
The actor wrote that he would have taken a different approach with testifying before Congress than Mueller's limited remarks that relied heavily on his more than 400-page report. "I don’t want to criticize [former FBI] Director Mueller as an actor, so let’s just say my approach to the part would have been different," De Niro wrote. "Mueller chose to play himself as a calm, confident, dignified public servant.
De Niro also said that his and Mueller's "acting choices" were so subtly different that "the casual viewer would hardly notice." For example, while Mueller referred to Trump as "president," De Niro wrote that he would have called him a "malignant narcissist." De Niro added that the Republicans also already had the information they wanted prior to the hearings. "They’d successfully nullified the conclusions of the Mueller report, first by circulating Attorney General William P. Barr’s mendacious summary of it and then by echoing Trump’s fantasy that the report found 'no obstruction, no collusion,'" he wrote. "All the Republicans asked for was that Mueller wouldn’t add anything — and, heartbreakingly, Mueller cooperated.
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