Yes! I have a fun test for friends: who would you'd rather go out to dinner with? Pacino or De Niro? I'm Pacino, my husband's De Niro. I'm a voluble type; he's more low key. I think De Niro and my husband would actually get to eat their entire meal. Pacino and I might be talking too much. I love Conan, but I do wish he would let the guests speak more, uninterrupted. Pacino gets past this better than anyone I've seen.
Everybody was obviously great in "Glengarry Glen Ross", and Alec might have had the more iconic lines, but Al's absolutely right about Jack Lemmon. Goddamn he was good in that movie. Everybody else was a character, but Lemmon was a human whose pain you could feel. The way he says "my daughter..." just hurts you so much.
I haven’t watched the full podcast yet, but I love getting these segments-each one makes me appreciate him even more. He’s been my acting mentor, and through watching, listening, and reading his book, I’ve learned so much spiritually and as an actor. So glad you guys got him on!
I never knew i could resonate so much with Al Pacino. He’s a true artists and creative who really looked at it from that angle and that’s not something most creatives live
Al Pacino is amazing! The first and only time I saw him perform live was years ago, on Broadway, in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and he was brilliant!
@@davidworobec1673 I meant Shylock. Othello is another touchy topic. I like both works but amazing modern day controversies with miscegenation and religious stereotypes.
i'm in total agreement with Al....Jack Lemmon DID give the BEST performance in Glengarry Glen Ross. and he should've been, AT LEAST, nominated as either a LEAD or Supporting Actor, at the Oscars that year, for that role.
I love how Conan lets Al speak and get his thoughts out even though it takes time but that's how you get a good interview. TAKE NOTE Tamron "I interrupt everybody" Hall, Oprah "stop answering your guests questions" Winfrey, Bill "I ask And answer the questions" Mahr and Joe "I talk too damn long" Scarborough
Scarface and The Thing were so ahead of their time that critics lost their minds calling them pornographic violence. Al's performance was just perfectly operatic.
@@mikejames-q5jLove Ebert, his opinions on films were 99.9% with my mine, I remember buying the Roger Ebert all time favorite films book back in 2012. Love the Way he philosophized and will tell you why the film was great or wasn’t. Gene Siskel was good too, but in my humble opinion Ebert was a master film critic.
Not for being a great movie. It's legendary cause egotistical and chauvinistic men think that character personifies how men are supposed to think and act. Nothing could be further from the truth. Scarface is a terrible movie. Pacino's accent is atrocious.
Looking for Richard was terrific. I only saw it once years ago. My brother got it for our mom who was hugely into Shakespeare. It was years ago, but I’d love to see it again. I love that some of our greatest actors like Pacino and De Niro are, for all their talent, such down-to-earth, real guys
About 10 years ago, we went to a very small theater in Minneapolis, seated maybe 50 people. Sat in the front row, and saw an all-women cast of about 5 actresses (they doubled up on parts) perform Hamlet. It was absolutely brilliant!
When I was in my late teens, I moved out with my friend, who is Al Pachino's cousin. I would go to the Pachino family functions and also visit Sal (Al"s dad) at his bar, Pachinos, in Covina, CA. He would always offer us a drink when we'd come in and visit. I never met Al, though. He was living in New York with Diane Lane at the time.
A couple of great Pacino performances that don't get enough credit are in the movies Bobby Deerfield (1977) and Sea of Love (1989). I highly recommend them if you can find them somewhere on streaming...........or elsewhere.
@@artlover1477 That is true. After all, I thought some of the movies that Al Pacino did were utter failures in the 1980's, like "Cruising," which was so controversial where it only showed one aspect of the LGBTQ community in the 1980 movie and I believed that Pacino donated his salary to the causes related to the community as well.
@robertpolanco1973 Cruising was just a tough movie to watch for many reasons. People say, well Pacino had Scarface in the early 80s, but it did not have favorable reviews and many at the time thought Pacino's performance was cartoonish and over the top.
Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross was a normal man and came across that way. In the middle of actors doing incredible roles and jobs, Jack just felt like a worried scared guy amidst these great actors, and you felt it.
Agreed but he's alive and look how lucid and "with it" he is. He might be drooling and senile in 5 years and dead in 10 so let's appreciate that here's here and healthy in 2024.
The acting and characters , writing and cast is so wonderful Glengarry Glen Ross is riveting and I have to agree with Pacino here after seeing it like 3 times it struck me the blown away acting performance was by Jack Lemmon. Totally agreed
When you stop and think about it, it is kinda hard to think of Al Pacino movies in the 80s. I looked it up, after Scarface in 1983, he only made 2 more movies that decade. The last was Sea of Love, in 89.
@@7armedman Back before the Hollywood corporations purchased the entertainment media, reviews of superhero movies would have read like this: "Silly fun for kids. Overlong." Now the critics write pages-long reviews as if superhero movies are newly discovered works of Shakespeare. It's embarrassing, quite honestly.
Al is so good in Glengary Glen Ross. In the scene where he’s dealing with the henpecked indecisive client, Al is portraying something pretty complex. He’s in salesman mode trying to talk the guy into getting what he wants, but you can also feel the human pity he has for the guy. He tells him “you can be a man, make your own decisions” and it’s because he doesn’t want the guy to back out of the sale, but it also feels like genuine empathetic advice. But you also wonder if he despises the guy for being weak, and is so good at manipulation that he can make you believe he cares. That all comes through in the acting, not the dialogue.
1:55 Pacino gets ready to tell a story about a movie; Conan immediately interjects and makes minute-long comment not often that O'Brien is off is his game, but this was one of them! let the man speak
I absolutely loved Scarface when I saw it on VHS in the winter of 1987. I guess the movie came out in 1983. I think it's considered a classic today so I'm not sure why the critics hated it so much? I think any mail in his teens, 20s or 30s would absolutely love that film.
Glengarry Glenross is a masterpiece of a film. All the performances are off the charts and like Al said here, Jack Lemmon stole it in the end. Lemmon's best performance, IMO.
Pacino is so lethal talking about theater and literature. He loves wearing black clothes. I wish he would throw in some pastels because they would make his beautiful skin tone look younger and accentuated.
Unfortunately Pacino was given very bad scripts in the 80s which caused him to take 7 years hiatus. But luckily in the 90s he came back more sharp and more cool. That's the Legend i love.
Revolution wasn't good, but other than that his 80s was quite solid. Author author was fun, Cruising was good, Scarface is a legendary film (now) and Sea of Love is great.
Hard to believe neither Al Pacino nor Robert De Niro have their stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This is especially unbelievable when you think that fictional characters such as Kermit the Frog, Snoopy, Winnie the Pooh and Godzilla had no trouble stamping their stars into the sidewalk. But perhaps most humiliating of all is losing out to a car: the Chevy Suburban!
Scarface has an 8.3 on IMDB and Pacino says it was a disaster. I was 2 when it came out, can someone tell me how/why it was “such a disaster” at the time?
This is the most candid, loose and funny that I've ever seen Al Pacino in an interview. You can tell he's really enjoying himself. Kudos to Conan.
Agreed 100%. Even the thumbnail is surreal. I think he's at a point where he has nothing else to lose.
Love how everyone is just so into what Al is saying. Absolute legend.
I read your comment right when the ad started. I found it funny. Thought you should know, so I commented. Have a good day.
Better Al than AI
i could listen to pacino tell stories all day long.
Listen to his book. It’s like 11 hours of him telling stories. So good
. . . and all night long as well.
@@marsrecordingsThanks for the tip!
I could too, but Conan keeps interrupting to talk about himself
Yes! I have a fun test for friends: who would you'd rather go out to dinner with? Pacino or De Niro?
I'm Pacino, my husband's De Niro. I'm a voluble type; he's more low key. I think De Niro and my husband would actually get to eat their entire meal. Pacino and I might be talking too much.
I love Conan, but I do wish he would let the guests speak more, uninterrupted. Pacino gets past this better than anyone I've seen.
Everybody was obviously great in "Glengarry Glen Ross", and Alec might have had the more iconic lines, but Al's absolutely right about Jack Lemmon. Goddamn he was good in that movie. Everybody else was a character, but Lemmon was a human whose pain you could feel. The way he says "my daughter..." just hurts you so much.
Yeah, he put on a clinic in that role, but they were all on fire in that film, so great.
Same in with Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis.
Jack Lemon did the best acting in that film, which featured all fantastic actors.
@@ManChan-w5p I guess you mean Some Like It Hot
I quote all the lines. Williamson! Williamson!
I haven’t watched the full podcast yet, but I love getting these segments-each one makes me appreciate him even more. He’s been my acting mentor, and through watching, listening, and reading his book, I’ve learned so much spiritually and as an actor. So glad you guys got him on!
I never knew i could resonate so much with Al Pacino. He’s a true artists and creative who really looked at it from that angle and that’s not something most creatives live
Al Pacino had so much fun there. I am happy to see him happy
Please put the whole Al Pacino interview on you tube
I wish there were a bunch of versions of Glengarry Glen Ross, each one with the same actors but in different roles.
10:05 Conan got to riff with Al and was in heaven!
Al Pacino is amazing! The first and only time I saw him perform live was years ago, on Broadway, in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and he was brilliant!
Shylock is antisemitic.
@@ManChan-w5p Iago? From Shakespeare's "Othello"?
@@davidworobec1673 I meant Shylock. Othello is another touchy topic. I like both works but amazing modern day controversies with miscegenation and religious stereotypes.
man i miss Conan's show
Why? This is better than any 5min interviews. Loved his show tho way back :)
i'm in total agreement with Al....Jack Lemmon DID give the BEST performance in Glengarry Glen Ross.
and he should've been, AT LEAST, nominated as either a LEAD or Supporting Actor, at the Oscars that year, for that role.
OMG.... I'm old enough to remember... NEVER SEEING AL PACINO BE SO FREE AND FORWARD.... it's wonderful !!! But I'm gob-smacked ❤️
I love how Conan lets Al speak and get his thoughts out even though it takes time but that's how you get a good interview. TAKE NOTE Tamron "I interrupt everybody" Hall, Oprah "stop answering your guests questions" Winfrey, Bill "I ask And answer the questions" Mahr and Joe "I talk too damn long" Scarborough
So funny because there are comments saying he interrupts Al too much. I think Conan does a great job and a lot of people feel comfortable around him.
Scarface and The Thing were so ahead of their time that critics lost their minds calling them pornographic violence. Al's performance was just perfectly operatic.
Don’t compare Scarface and the thing lol come on. The thing is a masterpiece
@@Jiff321 Both were fairly bloody for their time, and critics hated them expressly for the bloodiness. That isn't criticism it's pearl clutching.
@@Jiff321Both are masterpieces.
scarface is a classic, even in the 80's most so called critics were clueless.. only roger ebert gave it 4 stars !
@@mikejames-q5jLove Ebert, his opinions on films were 99.9% with my mine, I remember buying the Roger Ebert all time favorite films book back in 2012. Love the Way he philosophized and will tell you why the film was great or wasn’t.
Gene Siskel was good too, but in my humble opinion Ebert was a master film critic.
Scarface is legendary
Not for being a great movie. It's legendary cause egotistical and chauvinistic men think that character personifies how men are supposed to think and act. Nothing could be further from the truth. Scarface is a terrible movie. Pacino's accent is atrocious.
@@DEVILISHLY_DELICIOUSthen make something better. All of your comments are negative. Take a look in the mirror.
Nah it's an epic silly movie. It's great! Just pure 1980's Brian De Palma cocaine tweaking@@DEVILISHLY_DELICIOUS
@@DEVILISHLY_DELICIOUShater
@josecanales2978 I'm sorry you have such low standards. I'm not sorry I don't.
Looking for Richard was terrific. I only saw it once years ago. My brother got it for our mom who was hugely into Shakespeare. It was years ago, but I’d love to see it again. I love that some of our greatest actors like Pacino and De Niro are, for all their talent, such down-to-earth, real guys
About 10 years ago, we went to a very small theater in Minneapolis, seated maybe 50 people. Sat in the front row, and saw an all-women cast of about 5 actresses (they doubled up on parts) perform Hamlet. It was absolutely brilliant!
Fascinating
release the full interview pleaseeee
Al Pacino in Heat ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
She's got a great a$$!
Al Pacino is not a national treasure.. he's not.. he's a Global treasure
He's a UNIVERSAL treasure.
I'm gonna get that book.
When I was in my late teens, I moved out with my friend, who is Al Pachino's cousin. I would go to the Pachino family functions and also visit Sal (Al"s dad) at his bar, Pachinos, in Covina, CA. He would always offer us a drink when we'd come in and visit. I never met Al, though. He was living in New York with Diane Lane at the time.
Give me Al anytime over RD.
Al Pacino is just great on Conan's podcast, so funny!
A couple of great Pacino performances that don't get enough credit are in the movies Bobby Deerfield (1977) and Sea of Love (1989). I highly recommend them if you can find them somewhere on streaming...........or elsewhere.
Loved sea of love
Let's be honest, The Sea of Love resurrected Pacino's career.
@@artlover1477 That is true. After all, I thought some of the movies that Al Pacino did were utter failures in the 1980's, like "Cruising," which was so controversial where it only showed one aspect of the LGBTQ community in the 1980 movie and I believed that Pacino donated his salary to the causes related to the community as well.
@robertpolanco1973 Cruising was just a tough movie to watch for many reasons.
People say, well Pacino had Scarface in the early 80s, but it did not have favorable reviews and many at the time thought Pacino's performance was cartoonish and over the top.
Bobby Deerfield. Enough said.
Al as Jack Kevorkian (You Don't Know Jack).. Even the real Jack Kevorkian said he thought he was seeing himself on the screen.
Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross was a normal man and came across that way. In the middle of actors doing incredible roles and jobs, Jack just felt like a worried scared guy amidst these great actors, and you felt it.
My favorite Pacino performance was in Glengarry Glenn Ross. Fabulous to watch.
It's always hard to watch Hollywood legends grow old.
Agreed but he's alive and look how lucid and "with it" he is. He might be drooling and senile in 5 years and dead in 10 so let's appreciate that here's here and healthy in 2024.
I listened to this book in two days. It was amazing. He should win a Grammy and become an EGOT
Genius actor ❤
My hero❤the best actor of our century...should be on the walk of fame in gold letters
Old Al Pacino sounds like Frank Costanza when he yells lol
"you want a piece of me? *YOU GOT IIIIIIIIT*"
The acting and characters , writing and cast is so wonderful Glengarry Glen Ross is riveting and I have to agree with Pacino here after seeing it like 3 times it struck me the blown away acting performance was by
Jack Lemmon. Totally agreed
This is so good. Pacino is a cool cat.
The Goat says I wasn't doing well, crazy, he's so freaking a true artist, love of the craft, and a good person.
Al Pacino is very special and amazing.
When you stop and think about it, it is kinda hard to think of Al Pacino movies in the 80s. I looked it up, after Scarface in 1983, he only made 2 more movies that decade. The last was Sea of Love, in 89.
Weird how critics back then piled on _Scarface_ while today's critics put superhero movies on the same level as _The Godfather._
Critics don't do that at all. Audiences, maybe. Not critics. Maybe on the nerd internet sites I guess.
@@7armedman Back before the Hollywood corporations purchased the entertainment media, reviews of superhero movies would have read like this: "Silly fun for kids. Overlong."
Now the critics write pages-long reviews as if superhero movies are newly discovered works of Shakespeare.
It's embarrassing, quite honestly.
Glen Gary Glen Ross is such a powerful film. All those stars ran with it and made it great.
I wasn't prepared for Pacino to be so... funny
Conan doing a Supercuts sponsored ad…honestly makes sense, thinking on just about every bit he’s done about his hair 👌🤓👨🎤
I'm always in awe of how much his voice changed from 'The God Father' to 'Heat'. :)
Al is so good in Glengary Glen Ross. In the scene where he’s dealing with the henpecked indecisive client, Al is portraying something pretty complex. He’s in salesman mode trying to talk the guy into getting what he wants, but you can also feel the human pity he has for the guy.
He tells him “you can be a man, make your own decisions” and it’s because he doesn’t want the guy to back out of the sale, but it also feels like genuine empathetic advice. But you also wonder if he despises the guy for being weak, and is so good at manipulation that he can make you believe he cares. That all comes through in the acting, not the dialogue.
1:55
Pacino gets ready to tell a story about a movie; Conan immediately interjects and makes minute-long comment
not often that O'Brien is off is his game, but this was one of them! let the man speak
Scarface is an epic movie!
It's so weird to hear him say scarface was a disaster. It's probably the most influential cult film of all time.
I absolutely loved Scarface when I saw it on VHS in the winter of 1987. I guess the movie came out in 1983. I think it's considered a classic today so I'm not sure why the critics hated it so much? I think any mail in his teens, 20s or 30s would absolutely love that film.
10:09 😂😅
Glengarry Glenross is a masterpiece of a film. All the performances are off the charts and like Al said here, Jack Lemmon stole it in the end. Lemmon's best performance, IMO.
To me, Serpico is my favorite Pacino performance and film.
I think Al's hair could maybe use a Supercut.
Imagine Al Pacino and Harrison Ford doing a comedy film with Conan as a writer. That will be amazing.
You have a wild imagination. Rick Deckard hunting down gangsters instead of replicas particularly a Tony Montana.
Pacino is so lethal talking about theater and literature. He loves wearing black clothes. I wish he would throw in some pastels because they would make his beautiful skin tone look younger and accentuated.
Scarface is one of the greatest movies ever made!!
@steveaustin330 - And I must admit to not only loving the 1983 remake, but that it was also VERY FUNNY as well!
@@robertpolanco1973Banana boat????
@@ManChan-w5p Like what is your point anyway?
@@robertpolanco1973 Banana boat is funny?
@@ManChan-w5p Well, about most of the 1983 remake of "Scarface" was funny anyway.
Imagine a career where you think Scarface was a disaster. I'll take that career.
Maybe "Saturday Night Fever" can be remade with Pacino doing Travolta's part.
Unfortunately Pacino was given very bad scripts in the 80s which caused him to take 7 years hiatus. But luckily in the 90s he came back more sharp and more cool. That's the Legend i love.
I thought scar face was kind of a turning point . I loved that performance and have been a fan ever since.
Woulda loved an Al Pacino Supercuts ad lol
What’s so funny?
I love how sharp Pacino is in this interview. I really didn't know how well he'd do with his stints of dementia media portrays.
He sharpens his blade.
Lemon was outstanding in the film
Great interview 👍🏾 😂
Great stuff. I just wish Conan would let his guests speak more.
Al goat
Great interview Conan !
2 weeks later. Wow thanks.
Revolution wasn't good, but other than that his 80s was quite solid. Author author was fun, Cruising was good, Scarface is a legendary film (now) and Sea of Love is great.
Dunkaccino was so ahead of its time
That dark blue shirt and hoarse voice is doing conan well. More of those shirts, Conan.
If 80s Al Pacino thinks his career is over, there's no excuse for any of us not to give up on their dreams.
Love Pacino. I'd love if he came into my place of business looking for a shoe he lost.
6:23 😂😅🤣😂
Hard to believe neither Al Pacino nor Robert De Niro have their stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This is especially unbelievable when you think that fictional characters such as Kermit the Frog, Snoopy, Winnie the Pooh and Godzilla had no trouble stamping their stars into the sidewalk. But perhaps most humiliating of all is losing out to a car: the Chevy Suburban!
whatta charmer
He looks like Dustin Hoffman.
How Scarface was a disaster!? It's amazing!
Fast forward 5 minutes and 7 seconds if you want to hear Pacino speak…
Scarface was his 80s icon movie.
I saw Pacino on Broadway in American Buffalo. I think it was in 81 or 82.
David Mamet.
Was it better than the Hoffman/Franz combo in the movie? Franz is such a top actor, too!
Revolution must have been a great movie.
Anyone ever see Scarecrow? Pacino and Hackman.
Putting ads on a 10 minute clip is crazy
I had no idea Scarface wasn't considered a success.
I love it when the "Hollywood Celebrity" mythos gets destroyed...then we find out who is "real" and who is not.
Cruising nearly killed his career, He never talks about it
😄
10:13🤣
Steve Lukather’s looking good
I remember watching "Looking for Richard" and all I could think was "Oh Al Pacino did this to bang WInona Rider".
Scarface was an interesting guy. I didnt care for the gangster bravado.
Repeating the same line is DeNiro’s thing
Scarface was not a disaster, it is an iconic movie. Revolution was a disaster ！
Scarface wasn’t successful at the time, it’s critically acclaimed now.
Scarface has an 8.3 on IMDB and Pacino says it was a disaster. I was 2 when it came out, can someone tell me how/why it was “such a disaster” at the time?
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I talk s*** on a lot of celebrities because a lot of them are horrible humans. Pacino will always be a GOAT though, because he’s never fos.
How do you know that they’re horrible humans? You know them personally?
@@TL2354he’s just a Trump Incel
The Godfather!!!!
His Ricky Roma is flawless. I played the part once and I still marvel at his perfection of the character.