Al Pacino Looks Back On A Legendary Career

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino talks with Terry Gross about growing up in the South Bronx with a single mother, getting his start in Greenwich Village performing in avant-garde theater, nearly dying of COVID, and his life today. We'll also talk about The Godfather, and why he almost passed on Part II. His new memoir is Sonny Boy.

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0:23.3	This is fresh air.
0:24.8	I'm Terry Gross.
0:26.1	My guest today is Al Pacino.
0:28.6	Don't ask me about my business, Kate.
0:30.8	Is it true?
0:32.5	Don't ask me about my business.
0:34.3	No.
0:36.2	Well, I'm going to ask Pacino about his business, by which I mean his art.
0:41.3	It sounded like a shot to me.
0:43.3	It did.
0:43.9	I know.
0:44.5	It's you slamming the table.
0:47.1	Oh, all right, as long as it's not a gun.
0:50.3	I've had enough of those.
0:53.1	So I'm going to talk to Pacino about his remarkable performance in the Godfather films and other films.
0:59.3	We'll also talk about his life.
1:00.6	He's written a new memoir called Sunny Boy, which is the name his mother used to call him.
1:05.4	It spans his life from the days he grew up in the South Bronx, raised by a single mother with little money,
1:11.2	to falling in love with the language of the great playwrights, Stringberg, Chekhov, and Shakespeare,
1:16.3	getting his start in avant-garde theater in Greenwich Village, surprising himself by becoming a
1:21.2	movie star, nearly dying from COVID, and all the ups and downs along the way.
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