‘Emily the Criminal’ star Aubrey Plaza has opened up about “weirding out” Robert De Niro when the two worked together in 2016’s ‘Dirty Grandpa’.

Reflecting on her working relationship with the ‘Raging Bull’ actor (the two actors played lovers in Dan Mazer’s gross-out comedy), Plaza clarified that any way De Niro could have been offended by her behaviour would have been due to her staying committed to her character, reports ‘Variety’.

“I didn’t really have a relationship with him off camera because he’s him,” Plaza said, quoted by ‘Variety’, when asked about how well she and De Niro knew each other. “I didn’t have time to get to know him, he shows up in a puff of smoke and there’s no chatting at the water cooler.”

The actor explained how focused she remains when playing character — in that film, as the provocative Lenore — and that...