
Al Pacino reflects on 'The Godfather' fame 50 years later: 'Hard for me to cope with'
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Al Pacino is opening up about his breakthrough role in “The Godfather" 50 years since its release.
Although he will always be known as the legend who played Michael Corleone, Pacino said when director Francis Ford Coppola approached him about taking on for the role, he didn't take it seriously.
"It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, what train am I on? OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael. I thought, OK, I’ll go along with this. I said, yes, Francis, good. You know how they talk to you when you’re slipping? They say, ‘Yes! Of course! Yes!’ But he wasn’t. It was the truth. And then I was given the part," Pacino said in an interview with The New York Times.
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