Al Pacino could have been part of the Universe Star Warsbut finally he decided not to do it and rejected a million-dollar offer that could change the way we would remember one of the protagonists: Han Solo.
During a talk held last Wednesday at The 92nd Street YIn New York, the Oscar winner recalled that he was offered to play the role of Han Solo, finally played by Harrison Ford in the saga Star Wars.
“I turned down Star Wars. When I first got there, I was the new kid in the place, and you know what happens when you first get famous. It’s like, ‘Give it to Al.’ They would have given me Queen Elizabeth to play her. Pacino joked. “They gave me a script called Star Wars… They offered me a lot of money. I don’t understand it. I read it… And I said I couldn’t do it. I gave Harrison Ford a career,” he added.
Al Pacino on The Godfather
In that same conversation, Pacino also said that he has seen again The Godfather25 years after I last saw her. While filming the classic about the Italian mafia, Pacino said that Francis Ford Coppola He asked to meet him one night after shooting at a restaurant, where the director was having dinner with his family.
“I walked in and he said, ‘You know, I had a lot of faith in you. And you’re letting me down.'”the actor recalled. “I was just standing there thinking ‘What the hell, what have I done?'” he recounted. “Go to Paramount,” Coppola told him.
After seeing the sequences he had shot, Pacino understood the problem. In the early scenes of the film, the studio hadn’t realized his character’s inner journey to becoming Michael Corleone.
“I wanted to come out of nowhere and, at the end of the movie, create some kind of enigma,” Pacino said. “Your transition [de Michael] it’s what interested me, and I thought I couldn’t save it. After the first day of shooting, Diane Keaton and I got drunk. We thought ‘This is it, our careers are over,'” she went on to narrate.
What helped him stay on board was “the Solozzo scene, where Michael shoots the cop. Coppola insisted on that because he thought Paramount was about to fire me”Pacino said. “I did the scene, they liked it and they held me back because I shot someone,” he added.
According to the actor himself, this testimony will be the one that will start his memoirs, which he supposedly sold to Penguin Press last year. He also said that only “half” of The offerthe series of paramount on the production of The Godfatherit’s true.
Source: Ambito
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