Robert De Niro details freak-accident leg injury: 'The pain was excruciating'

Robert De Niro specified that he suffered "a torn quad somehow" while on location in Oklahoma to film the Martin Scorsese-directed Killers of the Flower Moon, but the 77-year-old seems in good spirits.

"I tore my quad somehow," De Niro told IndieWire. "It's just a simple stepping over something, and I just went down. The pain was excruciating, and now I have to get it fixed. But it happens, especially when you get older, you have to be prepared for unexpected things. But it's manageable."

De Niro added, in relation to if his character William Hale will feel repercussions from the injury: "What I'm doing with Scorsese in Killers of the Flower Moon, I'm pretty much a sedentary character in a way. I don't move around a lot, thank God. So we'll manage. I just have to get the procedure done and keep it straight in a certain position and let it heal."

Killers of the Flower Moon is the film adaptation of David Grann's 2017 book by the same name. Per IMDb, the story retraces Osage tribe members getting "murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover."

The historical crime drama will also star Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, and more.