Although they offered him a lot of money, Al Pacino turned them down because he didn't understand the script.
Many are likely unaware that Al Pacino was very close to participating in the popular 'Star Wars saga, however, everything broke down when the protagonist of 'The Godfather' read the script and did not understand it.
Al Pacino gave Harrison Ford a run
As Sensacine relates, when George Lucas was looking for someone for the role of Han Solo, the filmmaker sent the script to several well-known performers. Among them was Al Pacino, who was at the height of fame at the time, but he didn't understand the script and turned down the offer. The truth is that according to the interpreter himself, he refused even though they had offered him a lot of money. In this regard, Variety reported that the interpreter told the following at the cultural center The 92nd Street Y, New York: "Well, I rejected 'Star Wars'. When I first arrived I was the new kid in the neighborhood, you know what happens when you become famous for the first time."
He went on to recount: “They gave me a script called 'Star Wars'... They offered me a lot of money. I did not understand. I read it... So I said I couldn't do it. I gave Harrison Ford a run." Harrison Ford's story was that he worked as a carpenter while doing some acting roles, he went to the offices where the casting for 'Star Wars' was taking place to build a door. But George Lucas had already worked with him before on the movie 'American Graffiti he saw it, and he asked for his help with the tests: his mission was to read Han Solo's sentences. It was a fluke, but once the director saw the actor he knew he was perfect for the role. In addition to Al Pacino, the character was also offered to Kurt Russell, Christopher Walken, and Nick Nolte. So Harrison Ford arguably owes his career to Al Pacino. And a few more performers of the moment who said no to Han Solo. Because after 'Star Wars' came projects like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Blade Runner'.
Al Pacino Youth
The actor spent his childhood in the Bronx. His passion for the world of acting led him to study, at the age of 14, at the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan. At the age of 16, he gave up everything and for two years he looked for work in other sectors. However, he went back to his beginnings. After failing in his attempt to enter the Actors Studio, he continued his training as an actor in a Herbert Berghof course, and his teacher Charles Laughton became one of his spiritual fathers, recalled the aforementioned medium.
Al Pacino got his first role in William Saroyan's "Hello, Out There," and he won an Obie (the theater Oscars) for his performance in "The Indian Wants the Bronx." In 1996 he was admitted to the Actors Studio, where he met Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, the new generation of actors at the time who had been at the center of the scene during the 70s and until the mid-80s. Lee Strasberg, who became his mentor.
