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Robert De Niro Auditioning for Sonny Corleone in The Godfather
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2025
- The great Robert De Niro auditioning for the role of Sonny Corleone in 1971.
I was very impressed ... and in fact when the role was given to Jimmy Caan, he was supposed to play 'Paulie Gatto' but then was up for a bigger role in "THE GANG WHO COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT" and wanted to take the sure thing, and yet go for this part. So I told him "I'll hold the Paulie part for you so if you don't get the "gang" part, don't worry." But he got the Part.
I love this as it looks like it was recorded yesterday even though it was in 1971.
James Caan was too good to think of anyone else
Ultimately, James Caan made a great Sonny. De Niro as a young Vito worked great too
Thanks for putting this up.
Failed to get the Sonny role, instead got the young Vito Corleone role for The Godfather 2 and earned him his first ever Academy Award win. Wow, what an iconic move! At the end of the day, it's a win win solution for Coppola, De Niro, and James Caan himself 🙌
Your channel is such a treat!!!
World-class actor right there!
It would have been interesting to see Robert de Niro as sonny
Now all we need is the video rehearsal footage of ‘The Conversation’
i want to see other actors auditioning tapes like michael v gazzo or john cazale
Francis on youtube, what a great treat
Glad it went to Caan.
This moment has crossed oceans of time to find us.
Please mr. Coppola, upload rehearsal footage of mr. Brando in The Godfather
I saw a film clip where it show the godfather's cue cards taped to Tom Higgins belly.
Apparently Brando was poor with memorizing dialogue
👏👏👏👏👏
Really disappointed by the beeps. Why not preserve history?
Wouldnt have worked. James Caan was much better and De Niro was perfect as Vito
Thank you, Francis! There's been like 10 seconds of this audition ever shown publicly. From documentaries and the like. Is there more or is it all that's been recovered?
Thank you, maestro.
fresh Mean Streets look
Mean Streets wasn’t made yet. Godfather came out the year before Mean Streets.
@@Jared_Wignall embarrassingly yep 👍
@@Jared_Wignallso this clearly influenced his role as Jonny boy then
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More life in a performance than he'd show the next twenty years.
Highly debatable
I’m guessing part of the reason why didn’t get the part is because he doesn’t look physically like Pacino’s older brother. It sure wasn’t talent based on the short clip.
The studio wanted Caan in the Godfather so bad. He just came off Brain's Song and was a hot commodity. They wanted Caan for Michael. Coppola had to push for Pacino, but he had to compromise and find a spot for Caan somewhere.
Looks like the Trumpers dislike de Niro.
Looks like it goes both ways
Caan was better
Has-been De Niro still struggling to stay relevant today. Hey Bobby, your young wife left you and so is America because you are washed up. See ‘ya!
Looks like you got triggered by De Niro still being relevant today. And in any case he probably doesn't care about relevance, just doing what he likes to do.
Love him, but 🤬his ignorance about world events
Irony.
Great actor but not so much in real life it would seem. What a disgusting speech given at Mr. Trumps court appearance. Either compromised or mentally unstable, the former my guess.
Yes, he is working for the CIA.
@@GregorPQ lol okay pal
You see politics every where you go don't you? It runs your life doesnt it? You need to examine your life bro.
@@harshmellow4474 DeNiro should stay out of politics.
Lol the irony