Robert De Niro thanks Francis Ford Coppola for not casting him in major film: ‘The best job I never got’

Robert De Niro thanks Francis Ford Coppola for not casting him in major film: ‘The best job I never got’

De Niro lost out on the huge role to James Caan

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