For the 84-year-old actor, it was an event that changes one’s perspective on life, and one of the reasons why he decided to write a book of memoirs.
Al Pacino recently revealed details about his experience when he fell ill with Covid-19 and how serious it was when he contracted it in 2020. For the 84-year-old actor it was an event that changes the perspective on life, and one of the reasons why who decided to write a book of memoirs that he published this year, titled “Sonny Boy”.
“What happened was that I felt unusually bad, then I got a fever and started to get dehydrated, so we called a nurse,” Pacino has now said in an interview with The New York Times, where he details how quickly he got worse.
“I had no pulse,” says the actor in the same interview. “In a matter of minutes the ambulance was there and in the living room of my house there were six paramedics and two doctors wearing clothes that looked like space suits. It was a shock to open my eyes and see that. Everyone around me started saying: ‘He’s back.’
“It was a moment of thinking: now you are here, and suddenly you are not. And then I realized that I had not even written my memoirs,” adds Pacino, one of the most important actors of his generation, star of the saga The godfather and known for unforgettable performances such as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Price of Power or Trapped by His Past, among many others.
The assistant who saved Al Pacino
The Oscar-winning actor went a little deeper into that experience during an interview with People, where he thanks his assistant Michael Quinn having notified the doctors as soon as he realized that something was wrong.
“I don’t think he died. Everyone thought I had died, but no: I lost consciousness“, Pacino makes clear, although this near-death experience was not exempt from revelations of a metaphysical nature, which lead the actor to quote Shakespeare.
“I didn’t see a white light or anything like that”says in the New York Times. “There is nothing. Hamlet already says it: ‘To be or not to be; an undiscovered country from whose confines no traveler returns (…). I had never thought about this, but you know how we actors are: it sounds good to be able to say that I was dead. What is there when there is nothing?”
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