What's Going On With The Offer's Al Pacino Impersonation?
The portrayal of Al Pacino in the Paramount+ series The Offer, about the making of The Godfather, has come off as very different from the Pacino audiences know, but it's more accurate than they realize. The Offer follows the journey of producer Albert S. Ruddy in getting Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather made, which was a challenging endeavor, to say the least. In The Offer's cast of characters, Miles Teller plays Ruddy, with Matthew Goode as Robert Evans, Juno Temple as Bettye McCart, Giovanni Ribisi as Joe Colombo, Dan Fogler as Coppola, and Anthony Ippolito as a young Al Pacino.
Al Pacino was a relatively unknown actor at the time The Godfather was being cast, having only appeared in Jerry Schatzberg's The Panic in Needle Park in 1971 and starring mostly in theatrical productions, for which he won two Tony Awards prior to The Godfather. Coppola was impressed with Pacino and saw him as the only option for the role of Michael Corleone, even though others like Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, and Robert De Niro tried out for the part. After the success of The Godfather, Pacino's career took off and his acting persona changed dramatically with roles in films like Scarface, Dog Day Afternoon, Glengarry Glen Ross, Heat, and Scent of a Woman (for which he won an Oscar). Pacino is frequently associated with boisterous energy and his loud delivery, but it wasn't always that way.
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In The Offer, Ippolito plays Pacino at age 30, just as he was beginning his career as a Hollywood actor, and not the intense presence he is known for today. Ippolito's Pacino is shy, quiet, and affable, exuding low confidence in his abilities as an actor, even as he is
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