Al Pacino didn’t get to say whats up to Michelle Pfeiffer on the 2024 Oscars.
Though Pfeiffer, 65, and Pacino, 83, had been each scheduled to make appearances as presenters on the Sunday, March 10, ceremony, Pacino finally took the stage solo to current Finest Image to Oppenheimer for the final award of the night time. In keeping with Deadline, it was “private household causes” that reportedly saved Pfeiffer from touring throughout the nation in time for the annual ceremony, which is held on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Pacino, in the meantime, was greeted with a standing ovation as he took the stage as his Godfather costar Robert De Niro cheered him on from the viewers.
It was introduced final month that Pfeiffer and Pacino can be in attendance at this 12 months’s Academy Awards. Coincidentally, the presenting gig got here simply months after the Scarface 40-year reunion. The duo starred as Tony Montana and Elvira Hancock within the crime drama, which premiered in December 1983. (Scarface was a remake of the 1932 movie of the identical title.)
The duo starred as Tony Montana and Elvira Hancock within the crime drama, which premiered in December 1983. (Scarface was a remake of the 1932 movie of the identical title.)
Hollywood’s greatest names are blessing Us with their presence — and trend sense — on the 2024 Oscars purple carpet. Fan-favorite stars are starting to reach on the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 10, dressed to the nines. We’re speaking glamorous robes, fashionable fits and awe-inspiring equipment in addition to main hair […]
Scarface was each Pfeiffer’s massive break in Hollywood and the start of her longtime friendship with Pacino. Nevertheless, the actors didn’t get off on the suitable foot.
“He didn’t significantly need me for the half,” Pfeiffer admitted throughout a 2017 look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, referring to Pacino. “My final credit score earlier than that was Grease 2. Are you able to blame him?”
Throughout the “very lengthy and drawn-out auditioning course of,” Pfeiffer was ready so showcase her appearing chops.
“I used to be terrified, and I used to be actually younger, and I knew he didn’t need me, and because it went on, the more severe I obtained as a result of I simply obtained so afraid,” Pfeiffer recalled, noting that the film’s legendary director, Brian de Palma, was “rooting” for her to get the half. However her nerves obtained the perfect of her and finally, issues didn’t work out … at first.
A month later, Pfeiffer obtained a name for a display check. As a result of she felt like she had “no shot” at reserving the half, the actress was not “afraid” anymore.
The 2024 awards season got here to a detailed with the 96th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. Nominations had been introduced in January, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer incomes probably the most nods. Amongst its 13 nominations are Finest Image, Finest Director, Finest Tailored Screenplay and Finest Actor for Cillian Murphy. (It gained greater than another […]
“We do the restaurant scene on the finish the place I, sort of, freak out on the finish. I threw dishes, and the whole lot went flying, and I broke issues, I used to be in it,” she recalled of the audition. “There was blood in all places. Everybody comes working over to me, checking me out for blood, the place am I reduce, they’re not discovering something, there are not any cuts on me. “I look over and Al is bleeding.”
She added, “I reduce Al Pacino! … And that’s how I obtained the half.”
Almost a decade after they labored collectively on Scarface the duo reunited onscreen for 1991’s Frankie and Johnny the place they performed love pursuits as soon as once more.
