“Please don’t call it retired”: Al Pacino, 83, Won’t Admit He’s Retired after Earning $120M Fortune
Al Pacino is one of the most significant actors of the 20th century whose piercing gaze is known to the whole world. Alfred James Pacino was born in 1940 in the East Harlem area of New York, Manhattan. Pacino’s childhood was not easy, and due to living in a dangerous environment, he got influenced and started drinking and smoking at nine.
Among all the gloomy things in his childhood, the only thing that saved him was the cinema evenings with his mother, and he would happily narrate the plot of the film he had watched to his grandmother the next day.
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Al Pacino Shares His Thoughts About the Various Movie Roles Played By Him
He is known as the charismatic mafia leader Michael Corleone, as the blind tango dancer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, and as a theater actor, screenwriter, and director. He is a brilliant and one-of-a-kind Al Pacino. One might have so many questions in mind about Pacino, like, was he thinking about quitting the iconic movie, The Godfather? How did he get the nickname Sonny and why did he boycott the Oscars?
In his recent hourlong interview with David Rubenstein as part of the 92nd Street Y, New York’s “People Who Inspire Us,” Pacino reflected on his career and journey as an actor and shared that he is currently writing a memoir.
Pacino started by talking about The Godfather and The Offer, which shows the behind-the-scenes making of the 1972 film. He discussed how just after the first day of shooting for The Godfather, he thought in a drunken state that the movie was a mess and the end of his career. But it seems it was the opposite, as the film received 11 Oscar nominations.
Rubenstein was quick enough to ask whether Pacino skipped the Oscars that year because Marlon Brando was nominated (and won) best actor. At the same time, Pacino was recognized as a supporting actor. Pacino cleared the dust off this story and rejected the reason.
Al Pacino’s Thoughts About His Retirement From Acting
Pacino even said that, according to him, The Godfather II was not superior to The Godfather as both were different films. According to him, The Godfather was more entertaining, and The Godfather II was more of a storytelling at its best and a great movie.
Al Pacino then talked about his other roles, like in Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Scarface, and how he regretted turning down Star Wars.
When Rubenstein brought up the topic of Pacino’s retirement, the actor replied, saying, “I’m always retired. I was retired when I was 25. I mean, who cares? Please don’t call it retired, I just don’t want to work anymore.” “I don’t know, sometimes I just don’t want to do it as much. I like the lead-up to it, you know what I mean? It’s sort of like foreplay or something. I like to get there and see, ‘Will I make it? Will I not make it? That kind of thing. I don’t know anymore,” was further said by the actor.
After acting in more than 50 movies, Pacino has four more in the pipeline and hopes to make an adaptation of King Lear next year.
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