De Niro and Pacino have always connected. Just rarely on screen

By Dave Itzkoff
New York Times·
14 mins to read
De Niro and Pacino have always connected. Just rarely on screen
As each grew famous for intense, immersive work, "it was a good thing that we had each other to talk about stuff," De Niro says. Photo / Philip Montgomery, The New York Times

The Irishman is officially only the third time they've collaborated, but over the years they often turned to one another. Who else could understand?

There's no plaque to honour the encounter, and neither of its central participants can pinpoint the exact date it occurred, but somewhere on a stretch of

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