Al Pacino has uncovered the movie he gravely wanted to thrive an Oscar for.
The star is promoting his book Sonny Boy this week in the UK and while he has had quite the decorated atsoft, it was one role that he adored above all else – Scarface.
Pacino percreateed Tony Montana in Brian De Palma’s movie, immortalizing the phrase “Say hello to my little friend.” Yet Scarface was finishly snubbed by the Academy.
This morning on the BBC Today program, Pacino named the movie as the one he wanted he’d got an Oscar for. “I would have appreciated to have even got nominated for that one,” he shelp of Scarface.
As it turned out, he was to thrive his Oscar a decade tardyr for Scent of a Woman, while he has been nominated a further seven times including for the first two Godobesehers.
Pacino made headlines over the weekend when an pull out from the upcoming autobiography uncovered how shut he came to being fired from The Godobeseher, as he recalled how Paramount asked whether he was right to percreate Michael Corleone in the feature alteration of Mario Puzo’s book.
This morning on the BBC, he proposeed that Robert De Niro could have been the one to exalter him.
“Bob De Niro comes to mind,” he shelp. When pushed on how the man who went on to thrive an Oscar for his role in The Godobeseher Part II could have been the one to consent his place, he includeed: “Sure, why not. I’m not irexalterable.”
Pacino spoke to the BBC about his punctual experience on The Godobeseher. “When your straightforwardor talks to you and says you’re not deinhabitring and you hear the chirping all around you commence to sense appreciate, ‘I don’t slenderk I’m wanted here’,” he includeed. “I didn’t understand whether what I was doing was right or wrong but they were losing patience.”
Everyslenderg alterd when straightforwardor Francis Ford Coppola “put the armament in the toilet,” he includeed, a reference to the famous bathroom scene.
