Al Pacino admits he still sees himself as a man in his thirties.
October 14, 2024, published at 11:55 am ET
Today, Al Pacino is haunted by mortality and appears to be preparing for his final act.
RadarOnline.com can reveal it The godfather actor, who are Sunny boy memoir from October 8, focuses more on the coming years after he almost died from Covid-19.
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Pacino revealed that he plans to keep working until the day he dies.
Pacino’s new memoir shows him opening up about his past struggles with alcoholism and coming face to face with death — all of which have had a major impact on the actor’s mindset at age 84.
A source told RadarOnline.com, “Al is on his last legs, and he knows it. All he can talk about these days is his mortality and his past.”
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The Scarface actor was almost killed by Covid in 2020.
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They added: “Releasing his memoirs has brought it all poignantly into his mind, and after almost being killed by Covid, it’s basically all he can think about.”
“But it’s a real honor for him that he’s still working – and he plans to be until he drops.”
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While speaking on a podcast recently, the Scarface star opened up about how contracting Covid almost killed him, explaining that he lost consciousness at one point.
He said, “I was sitting there in my house and I was gone. Like that. I had no pulse.”
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After regaining consciousness, Pacino said he was shocked to see several paramedics standing around him in his living room, shouting, “He’s back.” He’s here.’
Although the actor said he didn’t see any kind of “white light,” he said being “away” for a short time gave him a new perspective on life.
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Pacino admitted that he turned to alcohol as a way to cope with his Hollywood fame.
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Pacino said, “Now I started thinking about that, and I’ve never thought about it in my life. But you know actors, it sounds good to me to say that I died once. It felt like death.”
The actor told another outfit that a nurse said his heartbeat had completely stopped, adding that he “really felt” like he was close to death.
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Although the actor acknowledges that he’s an “old guy,” he doesn’t see himself as such — even choosing to feature a photo of his younger self on the cover of Sunny boy.
He told CBS: “Now if I have my hair out and I go outside and someone takes a picture of me, all you see is a white fire hydrant!
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The Godfather star released his new Sonny Boy memoir on October 8.
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‘A white fire hydrant! I don’t feel like I’m gray yet. I don’t want to be gray. I’m that guy on the book cover.’
Sunny boy – a title that comes from a nickname given to Pacino by his mother – also sees the actor opening up about his past struggles with alcohol.
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Despite winning multiple Academy Awards, Tonys and Emmys during his long career, the actor admitted that he coped with his success by turning to alcohol.
He even suffered horrific “blackouts” and often skipped awards shows and press events, which tarnished his reputation in Hollywood.
He said, “Alcohol is a depressant, it literally brings you down.”
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Pacino has no plans to slow down and will appear in six upcoming films.
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Pacino also said that after he stopped drinking, things got “a little bit worse for a while” before getting better.
“It was really terrible. But eventually, thank God, it got there.”
These days, Pacino says he’s “busy as ever” with six films in the works, stressing that he’s playing much “smaller roles” compared to his 1972 mafia masterpiece.
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