Robert De Niro & Anne Hathaway’s “The Intern” Filming On Local Blocks Next Week
The Intern, a film starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway, will continue its filming tour around Brooklyn next week with a stop in Clinton Hill. We noticed signs posted on Grand Avenue from Putnam to Lexington, Gates Avenue from Grand to Irving Place, and Irving from Putnam to Gates asking neighbors to move their vehicles by 10pm on Wednesday, August 20, ahead of filming starting at 6am on both Thursday, August 21 and Friday, August 22.
Deadline Hollywood says of the project, “As [a fashion website founder Jules Ostin’s] company begins to thrive, she’s told that her company is importing seniors to be interns as a community outreach effort, and she’s getting one. While her first question is whether they are seniors in high school or college, she learns to her horror that she’s getting a real senior, as in senior citizen. The title character [“Ben Whittaker, played by De Niro], an over-70 widower who is bored with retirement from a middle management career, initially seems like a fossil to his working mother boss, but grows more indispensable. While the boss and internship develop a platonic bond, Meyers tells me that to her this is a love story about the friendship they develop.”
The film, directed by Nancy Meyers (Father of the Bride, It’s Complicated), was originally slated to star Tina Fey as Jules, and then Reese Witherspoon. Following Hathaway’s acceptance of the role, Anders Holm (Workaholics, The Mindy Project) has been slated to play her love interest. The film has also been shooting this summer in Park Slope and Ditmas Park.
If your car is moved during filming, call location manager Nils at 917-568-1260.
