If one of the greatest actors of all time calls someone the greatest actor of all time, you know they are doing something right.
An interview Al Pacino did with Playboy Magazine back in 1979 has resurfaced this year, where the extraordinary actor named who he thought was the greatest American actor of all time.
The 85-year-old actor has won many accolades throughout his 50-year career, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmys, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA and an honor at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Trained as a method actor in at HB Studio and the Actors Studio in New York City, Pacino is best known for his roles in Scent of a Woman, The Godfatherand The Godfather II, The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and more. He has also acted in multiple productions for HBO, such as Angels in America and the Jack Kevorkian biopic You Don't Know Jack. He also starred in Amazon Prime Video's Hunters from 2020 to 2023. In addition, in the 1960s and 1970s, Pacino was in the plays Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel on Broadway, for which he won both Tonys.
Al Pacino speaks onstage at "The Godfather" 50th Anniversary Screening during the 2022 Tribeca Festival at United Palace Theater on June 16, 2022 in New York City.In the resurfaced Playboy interview written by Lawrence Grobel, Pacino revealed that Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Jack Nicholson, Robert Mitchum, John Travolta and Lee Marvin were all "terrific actors," but when asked who he thinks is "the best actor in America," this star stood out to Pacino the most.
"There are so many fine actors….I don’t know," he answered. "George C. Scott."
Grobel then asked Pacino if he remembered the ending scene of The Hustler, where Paul Newman’s character walks out of the pool hall and Scott's character suddenly screams, “YOU OWE ME MONEY!” Pacino finished the phrase for the journalist and then described the film as a "very strong movie."
American actor, Al Pacino, in London, 25th March 1974.Scott was also a well-decorated actor who was best known for his various films throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Some of his well-known films include Patton, Anatomy of a Murder, The Hustler, The Hospital, Dr. Strangelove, The Day of the Dolphin, Movie Movie, Hardcore and The Exorcist III. He also played leading roles in TV movies such as Beauty and the Beast in 1976 and A Christmas Carol in 1984. The Petulia actor was working in various projects in the 1990s until he passed away from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm in Sept. 22, 1999. He was 71 years old.
American actor George C Scott (1927 - 1999) as Bert Gordon in 'The Hustler', directed by Robert Rossen, 1961.In a Q&A Pacino did at a seminar in UCLA with Growbel around the time Ocean's Thirteen was released in 2007, the legendary actor mentioned Scott again when a question about what he hopes to achieve by showing the audience his acting style was asked.
"There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point, he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, 'What was that, George, what were you doing?' And he said, 'They were sleeping,'" Pacino explained. "You’re always trying to catch them... Part of the behind-the-scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it."
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