You talkin’ to me? Just to say good night?

Robert De Niro cold called his longtime collaborator and friend Martin Scorsese just to wish him sweet dreams, much to the director’s confusion and amusement. 

The phone exchange, which was captured on video to promote the duo’s appearances at the Tribeca Film Festival, is part of a broader TikTok trend. Known colloquially as the “goodnight” trend, the viral movement sees men surprise their friends by wishing them a good night in an out-of-the-blue phone call — a gesture uncommon in its casual intimacy among male friends.

In the video, Scorsese accepts a call from the Taxi Driver star. “Hello? Bob?” he asks.

“I’m calling to say good night!” the actor says. “And sleep tight.”

Scorsese appears a little confused but maintains polite composure. “Okay, thank you,” he responds.

De Niro then asks his friend to switch the call to FaceTime. Scorsese accepts, and asks the actor what he’s up to.

“Here’s what I’m doing, I’m watching this,” De Niro says, turning his phone camera around to reveal The Wiggles playing on TV. (For more on De Niro’s Wiggles obsession, read EW’s interview with the band here.)

“Oh, great, that’s really good,” Scorsese says upon seeing the Wiggles.

“I’ll see you. Seeya tomorrow,” De Niro says. “Sleep well, dear.”

Scorsese plays along. “Okay, thank you, my love,” he says, laughing. “Bye!”

The filmmaker then unpacks the bizarre call with his daughter, Francesca, who filmed the entire exchange. “He calls four times, then you finally pick up, you realize it’s him and he goes, ‘Hey, how you doin’? Fine, I’ll see you tomorrow, right, okay,'” he says, befuddled. “The whole thing, big mystery. He just took it into his head that he had to say ‘Good night’ today.”

Francesca eventually told her dad that the call was part of a TikTok trend, and the footage of the filmmaker’s reaction to that news was placed at the beginning of the video. “That’s what that was? A trend thing?” the director asks incredulously. “That he called to say ‘Good night’ to me?”

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The working relationship between De Niro and Scorsese dates back to 1973, when the duo collaborated on Mean Streets. The actor and director went on to work together on nine other feature films across six decades: Taxi Driver; New York, New York; Raging Bull; The King of Comedy; Goodfellas; Cape Fear; Casino; The Irishman; and Killers of the Flower Moon. Scorsese also directed De Niro in the 2015 promotional short The Audition, and the longtime friends both acted in Guilty by Suspicion and Shark Tale.

Watch the full video of Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese doing the ‘good night’ trend above.