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Al Pacino reveals he had to take any and every movie role at 70 years old because he was “Broke”
As part of his new autobiography, legendary actor Al Pacino admitted to taking on roles he didn’t quite care for even at an advanced age because he needed the money.
Al Pacino just released his autobiography, titled ‘Sonny Boy’, and in it, you can read a multitude of confessions. One of them refers to the most recent years of his career, in which he claims to have had to accept roles that he otherwise would not have done, if it were not for the fact that he ended up completely broke.
The actor of Italian origin tells how he went from having 50 million dollars to having nothing because of a corrupt accountant who, in fact, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. According to the protagonist of legendary movies like ‘The Godfather’ trilogy, ‘Scarface’, ‘Heat’, and ‘Donnie Brasco’, in 2011 he started “to get warnings that my accountant at the time, a guy who had lots of celebrity clients, was not to be trusted.”
This is how Al Pacino became broke
“I was broke. I had $50 million, and then I had nothing. I had property, but I didn’t have any money,” recalls the actor. “In this business, when you make $10 million dollars for a film, it’s not $10 million. Because after the lawyers, and the agents, and the publicist, and the government, it’s not $10 million, it’s $4.5 million in your pocket. But you’re living above that because you’re high on the hog. And that’s how you lose it. It’s very strange, the way it happens. The more money you make, the less you have.”
“I wasn’t a young buck, and I was not going to be making the kind of money from acting in films that I had made before,” Pacino continues to explain. “The big paydays that I was used to just weren’t coming around anymore. The pendulum had swung, and I found it harder to find parts for myself.”
One of those films that in other times he probably would have rejected was ‘Jack and Jill’, a comedy starring Adam Sandler, of which he has pretty good memories. “‘Jack and Jill’ was the first film I made after I lost my money. To be honest, I did it because I didn’t have anything else. Adam Sandler wanted me, and they paid me a lot for it. So I went out and did it, and it helped. I love Adam, he was wonderful to work with and has become a dear friend. He also just happens to be a great actor and a hell of a guy.”
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