Pacino recalled thinking, “This is absurd.
It didn’t happen that way,” referring to the real life events that inspired the movie.
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Dog Day Afternoonis about a bank robbery gone awry.
Al Pacino and Chris Sarandon in ‘Dog Day Afternoon’.Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett (2)
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“I said, ‘We are dealing with human beings, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual.
We’re just human beings.’
Al Pacino in ‘Dog Day Afternoon’.Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett
I thought, Why are we talking about this?
Would the cops have let that kind of display take place?”
They didn’t kiss - they didn’t even touch.
No one was dressed up as Marilyn Monroe.
It never went down like that."
It just was."
“But you have to understand that none of that enters into my consideration.”
Sonny Boyis out now.
