“My ankle was hurt, somehow it slipped,” he says.
“The car had one of those side things that you could jump on and then jump in.
So I was just looking up at the sky and I said, ‘Thank you, God.’
Al Pacino attends an event in April 2023.Dominik Bindl/Getty
This was my thought.
I actually said, ‘Thank you, God.
You’re gonna get me out of this film.’
Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in a scene from ‘The Godfather’.Screen Archives/Getty
That’s how much I wanted to leave it.
I said, ‘This is from heaven.'”
Pacino was also nominated for his role, despite Coppola once telling him he wasn’t cutting it.
“[Coppola] tells me, ‘You know, I had faith in you.
I believed in you,'” Pacino explains on the podcast.
“I said, ‘Yeah, I know.’
He says, ‘Well, you’re not cutting it.’
I thought,Oh, what do I do now?
What do I say now?”
Despite not having any desire to watch himself in the footage, Pacino obliged.
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“I’m looking at the screen and I’m seeing the takes of different things.
I’m thinking,Well, that is not spectacular, but why should it be?”
I just wanted to just blend and just be natural.
So, I thought that was the way I was gonna go."
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But, like any good actor, he told his director what he thought he wanted to hear.
That always quiets everybody down.
‘I see what you’re saying, yes.
We’ll work on that.'"
Watch the full clip with Pacino, above.
Pacino’s full interview onConan OBrien Needs a Friendreleases Monday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
