Robert De Niro may be working on his own anti-vaccination documentary
The Tribeca Film Festival may have stopped short of showing the anti-vaccination film "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe" in March of this year, but there was one person who says he did not completely understand that decision: Robert De Niro.
And now, in an interview with Vulture at Cannes, De Niro may have implied that he's working on his own anti-vaccination documentary with none other than Harvey Weinstein.
De Niro was asked for his thoughts about having to pull "Vaxxed" from the Tribeca lineup and he mentioned "Trace Amounts," another anti-vaccination documentary in response. When Vulture asked him if he'd show "Vaxxed" if given another chance, De Niro pivoted and said instead that he was collaborating with producer Harvey Weinstein on their own documentary, likely about vaccinations.
"I don't what to talk much about it, because when I talk about it, something happens," he told Vulture elusively. "But that's what we plan to try to do."
Tribeca courted controversy in late March when it first green-lighted the screening of disgraced physician Andrew Wakefield's anti-vaccination documentary, "Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe" - a film that claims the CDC is holding back data linking autism and vaccinations.
The film was pulled at the behest of critics from both the scientific and film communities. Although De Niro issued a statement saying that he wanted the film merely as a conversation starter, he has continued to support the film outside Tribeca's stages, even suggesting on the Today show that it was a movie people "should go and see."
De Niro and Weinstein did not respond to Tech Insider's requests for comment. You can read the full Vulture interview here.