Al Pacino, whose memoirs will be released on October 18 in France, confided that he came close to death four years ago in the middle of the Covid crisis.
A tragedy avoided. Actor Al Pacino, aged 84, returned to an episode that could have ended badly. The star of The Godfather, whose memoir “Sonny Boy”, will be released in France on October 18 by Editions du Seuil, confided in an interview with the New York Times to having come close to death four years ago, when he was being treated for a coronavirus infection.
“I had no pulse,” the Oscar winner said, remembering, “It was really – you’re there, you’re not there.”
The artist, who was at home at the time of the incident, recalled precisely what happened, explaining that he had not felt well, “exceptionally not well”, then had a fever, ‘being dehydrated and having asked what we call a nurse.
Rapid emergency intervention
“I was sitting in my house and I disappeared. Like that. I no longer had a pulse,” he then said before specifying that emergency services had intervened quickly.
“Within minutes they were there – the ambulance outside my house. There were about six paramedics in the living room, along with two doctors, and they were wearing outfits that made it look like they were from outer space or something. It was a little shocking to open my eyes and see that. Everyone was around me saying, ‘He’s back. He’s here.’
Al Pacino also compared this experience to Shakespeare’s work and one of his most famous lines, explaining: “It was over. As Shakespeare says in Hamlet, “No more. To be or not to be.”
The actor also spoke about his recent fatherhood, saying that it was one of the motivations for writing his memoirs. Al Pacino, became a father for the fourth time last June of a little Roman, the fruit of his union with Noor Alfallah, fifty years his junior, from whom he has been separated since September.
The Scarface star also gave news of his son. “He’s entered the world a little more now,” the comedian said. “He’s learning things,” noted the actor starring in Johnny Depp’s film “Modi – Three Days on the Wing of Madness,” which had its world premiere at the 72nd edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival. last month.
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