Diane Keaton Says ‘Nobody’ Wanted Pacino Cast In ‘The Godfather’
Young Al Pacino had not been in many movies when he became Michael Corleone. Now, he’s a legendary actor and we could never imagine him NOT being cast in that role. Could we? Apparently the producers weren’t sure they wanted him right away.
Diane Keaton has a new movie opening today in theaters, “Mack & Rita”. She says ‘nobody’ wanted Al Pacino to portray Michael Corleone in The Godfather. Keaton says she was cast as school teacher Kay Adams-Corleone before Pacino for the cult classic. Pacino got the role after a second audition. “I think the kindest thing that someone’s ever done for me … is that I got cast to be in ‘The Godfather,’ and I didn’t even read it. I didn’t know a single thing,” Keaton told People. Keaton says she never read the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo and was “just auditioning” and “trying to work” when she auditioned for ‘The Godfather.”
Below are two trailers. One for The Godfather, the other is Diane Keaton’s new film “Mack & Rita”
Who else could you see portraying Michael Corleone?
