After taking part in his fair proportion of characters that have been recognized for doing cocaine, Al Pacino desires you to know he has by no means taken it in actual life.
Whereas showing on the New York Occasions podcast The Every day to advertise his upcoming memoir, Sonny Boy, Pacino was requested a couple of line from the e book during which he wrote, “There’s the final perception that I’m a cocaine addict or was one.”
“I assumed it. I heard it someplace,” Pacino mentioned. “They’re shocked once they discover out I don’t take cocaine. I by no means took it in my life.” Then, he joked about having a “grapevine over at my home.”
In addition to, the 84-year-old actor claims he doesn’t want the additional increase anyway. “I’m not the sort of man who ought to take coke,” he defined. “Any higher, I don’t want. I’m up!”
A few of Pacino’s most memorable movie roles have concerned portraying heavy cocaine customers. Tony Montana in 1983’s Scarface famously surrounds himself with a mountain of coke and Pacino has confirmed his Warmth character Lieutenant Vincent Hanna was “chipping cocaine” within the movie.
Pacino has overtly admitted to having an alcohol dependancy within the Seventies — notably after the success of The Godfather — however stopped consuming in 1977.
In one other bit from the interview, Pacino revealed he almost died from COVID-19 in 2020, saying he briefly “didn’t have a pulse.”
Nonetheless an lively actor, Pacino just lately starred in Prime Video’s Hunters and the Johnny Depp-directed Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Insanity.
Sonny Boy will hit bookshelves on October fifteenth. Pre-orders are ongoing.
