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Here’s How Old Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci Are Supposed to Be in Key Scenes in The Irishman

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Tim Molloy

World War II

De Niro plays mob enforcer Frank Sheeran at many stages of his life. He’s at his youngest in World War II. The real Frank Sheeran was born in 1920, so when we briefly meet him in a flashback to the war, he’s in his early 20s.

Here’s De Niro as Sheeran at that age:

Robert De Niro, 76, de-aged to his early 20s during World War II for The Irishman.

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Tim Molloy

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  • The de-aging was kind of eerie. I could detect a kind of higher definition and luminosity in the de-aged face of De Niro. It was also obvious that the younger looking faces were sitting on top of older -looking and -acting bodies. But I suspended my disbelief.

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