Peddling bread on the mean streets of Bolton seems to suit the Hollywood star. Take note, Scorsese
You will be reading a lot this week about the death of Robert De Niro’s career. You will see stills from his newest role in a Warburtons bread commercial, and they will all be accompanied by doom-laden hand-wringing about the fall of a once unbeatable actor. To see a man with the gravitas of Robert De Niro surrounded by bagels, leaning on a bagel-coloured desk and wearing a bagel-coloured suit in a commercial for a bagel company is unforgivable, they will say. It will once and for all underline the irreparable damage wrought by chasing the quick buck, they will say.
However, I am here to offer a counterpoint. Reader, I put it to you that not only is the Warburtons advert not the death of Robert De Niro’s career, but that it is also his best work in living memory.
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