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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Al Pacino (2020)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The name Al Pacino calls to mind some of the most memorable performances in the history of film, from The Godfather and Scarface to Scent of a Woman and Heat. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the Hollywood icon to talk about his legendary career, including his Oscar-nominated performance in The Irishman and his Amazon series Hunters. Plus Willie takes Al for a cruise around Beverly Hills in a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado. (Original broadcast date: February 23, 2020)

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:05.8

Thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

0:08.5

I'm just going to come out and say it.

0:10.2

I think I got it all time for you this week.

0:12.6

The man, the legend, the icon, the word that's overused, but in this case it applies.

0:17.8

Al Pacino is my guest.

0:20.6

As you may know, Pacino doesn't do a lot of interviews.

0:23.0

Hasn't done a lot of interviews over the course of his career.

0:26.1

So with a little bit of arm twisting, we convinced him to come and sit down with us.

0:30.4

And man, he is, let's just say he should do more interviews.

0:34.2

He's, it was open and warm and happy to talk about whatever we wanted to talk about.

0:39.3

We got together out in Beverly Hills near his home at a little restaurant called L'Adolce

0:43.8

Vida.

0:44.8

It's got the red leather boost.

0:45.8

If you can picture it while we're talking with the brick wall, the table across from us

0:50.1

has the gold plate that says Frank Sinatra, all the tables are named for some old Hollywood

0:55.0

legend.

0:56.4

And he came to play as I think you'll hear.

0:59.3

We're talking about his latest project, the Amazon Prime series Hunters, which is about

1:04.7

a group of Holocaust survivors in 1970s America, Seeking Revenge.

1:09.9

We put it that way against Nazis who've hidden themselves inside America.

1:14.2

But that was just the beginning.

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