Al Pacino Talks ‘The Godfather’, ‘Scarface’ and ‘Sonny Boy’

Al Pacino has revealed the film he really wanted to win an Oscar for.

The star is promoting his book Sonny Boy This week in the UK and although he has had a fairly successful career, he said there was one achievement that he felt was somewhat overlooked – Scarface.

Pacino played Tony Montana in Brian De Palma’s film, immortalizing the phrase “Say hello to my little friend.” Scarface was completely rejected by the academy.

This morning on the BBC Today On the show, Pacino called the film the film he would have liked to win an Oscar for. “I would have even liked to be nominated for it,” he said Scarface.

As it turned out, he would win his Oscar a decade later scent of a woman, while he was nominated a further seven times, including the first two Godparents.

Pacino made headlines over the weekend when an excerpt from his upcoming autobiography revealed how close he came to being fired The Godfatheras he recalled how Paramount questioned whether it was right to play Michael Corleone in the feature film adaptation of Mario Puzo’s book.

This morning on the BBC he suggested that Robert De Niro might have been the one to replace him.

“Bob De Niro comes to mind,” he said. When pressed about what the man was like for his role in ” The Godfather Part II could have been the one to take his place, he added: “Sure, why not. I’m not irreplaceable.”

Pacino spoke to the BBC about his early experiences The Godfather. “When your director talks to you and says you’re not meeting your expectations and you hear the chatter around you, you feel like, ‘I don’t think I’m wanted here,'” he added. “I didn’t know if what I was doing was right or wrong, but they lost patience.”

Everything changed when director Francis Ford Coppola “put the gun in the toilet,” he added, referring to the famous bathroom scene.