Harvey Weinstein & Quentin Tarantino Discuss Robert De Niro’s Huge Ego (Video)

Robert De Niro acted like such a huge douche during the making of the movie “Jackie Brown” in 1997, that Miramax’s main dude, Harvey Weinstein, had to settle director Quentin Tarantino down. Read more and hear the leaked phone conversation between Weinstein and Tarantino below.

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“This is a great actor and actually a great guy, who’s going through a difficult time . . . I think he’s really having like a scratching-his-head session, you know, with his own life and his own career,” Weinstein says to Tarantino in a phone conversation leaked to Page Six. “I think he knows he can play a certain kind of role from now for the next 20 years. But I think he wants to change the course of his career.”

In the film, a tribute to ’70s blaxploitation flicks, De Niro plays an ex-con named Louis Gara. De Niro felt he should have received more money for his role. “He thinks he’s going to . . . make John Travolta look like that was an amateur night in Dixie,” says Weinstein in the 11-year-old recording, referring to Travolta’s comeback in Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.”

Quentin Tarantino then says: “He’s still dealing with, subconsciously, the fact that he’s not going to get paid for doing the thing that he’s created after 20 years . . . He’s built his reputation on roles like Louis . . . ‘How can you not pay me?’ ”

At another point in the phone recording, Weinstein warns Tarantino he might get a “weird midnight phone call” from De Niro. Tarantino rages: “Tell Bob not to call me yelling and screaming . . . I don’t know if I’m going to be nice [if] the guy calls up yelling and screaming at me like a maniac, calling me a [bleep]er!”

Weinstein’s lawyer, David Boies, said, “We are disappointed that any member of the press is trafficking in illegal tape recordings and compounding the damage by taking them out of context,” discussing the phone tape that was sent anonymously to Page Six.

De Niro’s rep said, “Unless you were privy to actual conversations . . . I would draw an analogy to the blind man who picks up the tail of an elephant and exclaims, ‘This animal must be quite slender and very wiry.’ ”

Well, here’s the phone conversation. It is somewhat interesting:

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