{"id":525266,"date":"2026-03-09T20:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525266\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:37:10","slug":"aubrey-plaza-shares-awkward-moment-in-robert-de-niro-sex-scene-that-was-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525266\/","title":{"rendered":"Aubrey Plaza shares awkward moment in Robert De Niro sex scene that was \u2018real\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aubrey Plaza has revealed the awkward moment she had with legendary actor Robert De Niro while filming.<\/p>\n

The American<\/a> actress and comedian, who is perhaps best known for her role in Parks and Recreation<\/a>, has built up something of a reputation for getting into some shenanigans on set.<\/p>\n

After all, she nearly ended up married<\/a> to her Scott Pilgrim vs the World co-star Michael Cera<\/a> while they visited Vegas together, while she was asked by the director to actually masturbate<\/a> while she filmed The To-Do List.<\/p>\n

However, it was with one of the most influential actors of a generation in De Niro<\/a> where she took things perhaps a step too far, as the 82-year-old was left ‘legitimately scared’ of her while they filmed Dirty Grandpa together.<\/p>\n

\"DeDe Niro was left feeling a little uneasy (Beata Zawrzel\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

If you haven’t seen the 2016 film featuring Zac Efron, it essentially sees the Taxi Driver star play his grandfather as they get into all sorts of trouble, with Plaza playing De Niro’s much-younger love interest.<\/p>\n

But Plaza decided to fully commit to her role to the extent where it seemingly made De Niro feel a little uneasy, with a particularly awkward moment coming when she tried to ‘suck on his nipples’.<\/p>\n

Speaking in a 2016 interview with Jimmy Kimmel, she said: \u201cI\u2019d try to get in there and suck on his nipples, and he was like batting me away, and I didn\u2019t know if it was in character or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PlazaPlaza starred as De Niro’s much younger girlfriend in the movie (Paramount)<\/p>\n

She quickly learned that \u2018Bob does not like his nipple area paid attention to,\u2019 and later joked: \u201cGreat, now he thinks that I wanted to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two weren’t spending all that much time together on set, meaning that his only real experiences with her were when she was in character and desperate to be intimate with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard from my agent, who had spoken to his agent that he was legitimately scared of me,\u201d she told Kimmel.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time I was around him, it was right before we started shooting, so I would be all over him, and I think I really freaked him out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have time to get to know him, he shows up in a puff of smoke and there\u2019s no chatting at the water cooler.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PlazaPlaza admits she was acting ‘totally insane’ (Paramount)<\/p>\n

Unfortunately that’s likely to be De Niro’s lasting impression of Plaza, as she was almost always in character whenever he saw her, and clearly the nipple nonsense left him feeling a little nervous.<\/p>\n

As she put it: \u201cBy the time he\u2019d show up, I\u2019m in character. My character had one goal: To have sex with him. I was acting totally insane as the character because we were about to shoot. I don\u2019t think he understood that wasn\u2019t me.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019d think he would because he\u2019s an actor and an amazing one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aubrey Plaza has revealed the awkward moment she had with legendary actor Robert De Niro while filming. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49200,49,48,361,75,23344],"class_list":["post-525266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-aubrey-plaza","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-robert-de-niro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}