{"id":24814,"date":"2014-09-04T22:58:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24814"},"modified":"2025-01-20T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:45:47","slug":"al-pacino-opens-up-at-tiff-gala-tells-crowd-he-knew-hed-be-a-movie-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/04\/al-pacino-opens-up-at-tiff-gala-tells-crowd-he-knew-hed-be-a-movie-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Pacino opens up at TIFF gala, tells crowd he knew he\u2019d be a movie star"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Al Pacino at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. Photo by Tristan Reville<\/a> \/ Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO\u2014Al Pacino knew early-on that he was going to make it big.<\/p>\n

When asked if he considered his fame unlikely, the Oscar-winning actor told a Toronto audience he always expected to be a movie star.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always thought I would be, sorry,\u201d he said without batting an eyelid Wednesday night, during a wide-ranging on-stage conversation at the Toronto International Film Festival\u2019s annual charity gala.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen your eighth grade teacher comes up to your grandmother, six storeys high in a tenement building, and says to your grandmother, \u2018watch this kid and keep him acting,\u2019 you get a little confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

But while the 74-year-old Pacino said he never doubted his desire to act, he\u2019s now reached a point in his career where he\u2019s more picky about his projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find now I am only interested in doing something that I feel is reflective of how I am, and where I am at in my cycle of life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Pacino\u2019s two latest films which will be playing at the festival\u2014\u201cThe Humbling\u201d and \u201cManglehorn\u201d\u2014both fit that criteria, he said.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Humbling,\u201d Pacino plays an aging actor whose life gets a jolt when he starts an affair with a younger woman, while \u201cManglehorn\u201d has him portraying a heartbroken man who tries to start his life over with help from a new friend.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The Humbling\u2019 was more or less a subject that was close to me, and I felt \u2018Manglehorn\u2019 challenged me to do something different,\u201d he said, adding that both films had him working with excellent filmmakers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019ve got a script that\u2019s good and you\u2019ve got a great director, you\u2019re going to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pacino\u2014who is known for his explosive roles in \u201cScarface\u201dand \u201cThe Godfather\u201d films among many others\u2014said his \u201cbig emotions\u201d have stood him in good stead.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do they call actors? Emotional athletes? It\u2019s what we do,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes we go too high, sometimes we go too low, sometimes we catch the right middle and the explosions come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of those emotions appeared to be on display Wednesday night when, in a few seemingly unguarded moments, Pacino opened up about his relationship with his often-absent father.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad would every once in a while show up. He was a man I didn\u2019t really know that well.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not easy for a kid, it wasn\u2019t easy for him,\u201d he said, before adding, \u201cthis is very personal, what are we getting into here?<\/p>\n

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\u201d<\/p>\n

Urged on by his interviewer, and a captive audience, Pacino went on to share an anecdote about being at his father\u2019s apartment as a young boy and wanting to go home to his mother after a fright in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n

His father drove him home despite the late hour, Pacino said, and told his son \u201cone day you\u2019ll understand what this is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI never forgot that moment and I do understand what it is,\u201d Pacino said. \u201cI\u2019ve never felt great anger towards him.\u201d<\/p>\n

In another story, the actor remembered a moment when he simply felt his father was watching out for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt him on my back, like he had me covered and I really was stunned by it, it actually stopped me in my tracks,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought, oh that\u2019s what it is to have a dad, you\u2019re covered.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the conversation veered back to his career, the actor, who said he first started out as a comic, credited the stage time and again for the performer he became.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheatre was my lure,\u201d he said. \u201cTheatre was where I started, so I was always going back there to feel, I think, at home, and feel connected to something.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he doesn\u2019t see himself as a \u201creal\u201d director, Pacino, who has made his own films, added that one of his great desires was to bring a play to life on the big screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to take a play and make it a film and make you feel the play in the film,\u201d he said emphatically.<\/p>\n

The Toronto International Film Festival runs until Sept. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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