Al Pacino has revealed that he once nearly kidnapped by a female fan who offered to drive him home when he was “a little drunk”.
In his newly released memoir, Sonny Boy, the 84-year-old Oscar winner recalled going out for drinks with Gene Hackman’s brother, Richard Hackman, “somewhere in our cross-country journey,” when he met a woman who almost caused him to jump out of her car.
According to the actor, he “got so drunk that I could not find my way home.” However, “a woman said to me, ‘Oh, I’ll drive you home.’ And without a second thought, I got into her car with her.”
He continued: “But as we drove, even in my daze, I could recognise that she was not taking me back to where I was staying. I said to her, ‘What is going on here?’ And she said straight out, ‘I’m kidnapping you.’ ”
The actor went on to say that he “was well-known” by that time, having already made The Godfather, and insisted the woman’s behaviour “was not” simply “some aggressive flirtation.”
“I am from the South Bronx. When I see some crazy person trying to do something to me, I know how to escape,” he wrote. “I said, ‘No, you’re not. I’m getting out.’ She said, ‘No, no,’ and she kept driving.”
Pacino then said he opened the car door, and threatened to jump out of it. “I was a little drunk, but I was ready to leap from a moving car if I had to. This ain’t happening to me, man.”
Al Pacino. CREDIT: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images
The Scarface actor didn’t have to resort to jumping out, however, as the woman eventually agreed to take him home.
Elsewhere in Sonny Boy, Pacino, who is a father of four, also reflected on why he never married, saying he “always shied away” from it.
“I guess I didn’t see how it would help anything,” he wrote. “I just wanted to avoid what I thought, at the time, was the inevitable: an entrance to the pain train.”
In other news, Pacino made headlines earlier this week after an image of his Shrek phone case went viral.
In an interview with the BBC, the actor explained that the case was originally picked out by his youngest daughter Olivia, 23, some years ago, and he’s stuck with ogre accessory ever since.
When challenged why he had never decided to get into voice acting for animated films such as the 2001 DreamWorks classic, he claimed at first, “I can’t do it, I’ve tried,” before eventually conceding, “I seriously don’t want to”.
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