Robert De Niro has played no small number of characters during his half-century in movies: gangster, boxer, bounty hunter, fire captain, cabbie, father-in-law. Now we can add office boy. Sort of.  In latest comedy written and directed by Nancy Meyers, The Intern, De Niro stars as Ben Whittaker, a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a “senior”— as in “seniors in life”— intern at an online fashion startup, founded and run by Oscar winner Anne Hathaway aka Jules Ostin, a kind of Miranda Priestley of an upcoming  *style* website (sans malice 😉 ).

De Niro believes in tucked in shirts and joins Facebook—but the trailer definitely isn’t making fun of his character and after plenty of generation-gap jokes and shenanigans, initial awkwardness gives way to mutual respect as Ben becomes much more than an intern to his colleagues, especially Jules. “Look and learn, boys, because this is what cool is,” Hathaway says, referring to De Niro. As the two learn from one another, she sees that the line between employee and confidant begin to blur. (And proves everyone can learn something from Robert freakin’ De Niro.)

Photographs from The Intern set, courtesy of Nancy Meyers’ Instagram

There are a few things we all know to expect from a Nancy Meyers movie: fantastic interior design, bouncy scores, and A-list actors cutting loose while looking completely fantastic. The first trailer for The Intern has all of that: the film’s multi-generational cast also features Rene Russo, Veep’s Reid Scott, Anders Holm, Andrew Rannells, Adam Devine, Celia Weston, Nat Wolff, Linda Lavin, Zack Pearlman, Christina Scherer and Meyers’ own former mentee, her onetime assistant Jason Orley in his acting debut.

The Intern is set to be in US theaters on September 25th and in the UK on October 2nd.

Take a look at the trailer above now: I already love it!  😀