Al Pacino Recalls How He “Didn’t Get Fired” From ‘The Godfather’: “Paramount Didn’t Want Me”

Although Al Pacino will always be synonymous with his breakthrough performance in The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola‘s acclaimed mafia drama nearly replaced him. In his new memoir Sonny Boy, which is now available, the Academy Award winner recalled Paramount “questioning whether I was the right actor” to play Michael Corleone in the feature adaptation […]