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CTV News
a day ago
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Al Pacino shares how his eldest daughter intimidated him before he began working on ‘Scent of a Woman'
Al Pacino is a proud dad. When the actor was preparing to shoot the 1992 film 'Scent of a Woman' – in which he played a freewheeling and curmudgeonly retired Army veteran who is blind – Pacino recently told E! News that he asked his eldest daughter, who was 3 years old at the time, to try and play a blind person. 'I said to my daughter, 'Hey, Julie, do a blind person. Can you do a blind person for me?'' he recalled. 'She did it and I thought, 'Wow, I can't do this because kids are geniuses.' They have that genius and she was blind and she just did it, no preparation, nothing.' Pacino, of course, went on to win a best actor Oscar for his performance in the role the following year, but still credits his kids – Julie Marie, now 35, twins Anton and Olivia, 24, and youngest son Roman, 2 – with helping him with his craft. 'Everything he does is real,' Pacino, 85, told the BBC in October of Roman, who he welcomed with Noor Alfallah in 2023. 'Everything he does is interesting to me. So, we talk,' he continued, adding that he plays the harmonica for Roman on video calls. Also last year, Pacino observed to People magazine that fatherhood 'changed' him for 'the better.' 'It changed me for life. And the idea that you're throwing your focus on other humans who happen to be your children … there's the love.' 'The Godfather' star reflected on having a new baby as an octogenerian. 'Well, it's always the same. It's always the same,' he said. 'It's a mini miracle. That's all I can say.' Happy Father's Day, Mr. Pacino!
CNN
a day ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
Al Pacino shares how his eldest daughter intimidated him before he began working on ‘Scent of a Woman'
Al Pacino is a proud dad. When the actor was preparing to shoot the 1992 film 'Scent of a Woman' – in which he played a freewheeling and curmudgeonly retired Army veteran who is blind – Pacino recently told E! News that he asked his eldest daughter, who was 3 years old at the time, to try and play a blind person. 'I said to my daughter, 'Hey, Julie, do a blind person. Can you do a blind person for me?'' he recalled. 'She did it and I thought, 'Wow, I can't do this because kids are geniuses.' They have that genius and she was blind and she just did it, no preparation, nothing.' Pacino, of course, went on to win a best actor Oscar for his performance in the role the following year, but still credits his kids – Julie Marie, now 35, twins Anton and Olivia, 24, and youngest son Roman, 2 – with helping him with his craft. 'Everything he does is real,' Pacino, 85, told the BBC in October of Roman, who he welcomed with Noor Alfallah in 2023. 'Everything he does is interesting to me. So, we talk,' he continued, adding that he plays the harmonica for Roman on video calls. Also last year, Pacino observed to People magazine that fatherhood 'changed' him for 'the better.' 'It changed me for life. And the idea that you're throwing your focus on other humans who happen to be your children … there's the love.' 'The Godfather' star reflected on having a new baby as an octogenerian. 'Well, it's always the same. It's always the same,' he said. 'It's a mini miracle. That's all I can say.' Happy Father's Day, Mr. Pacino! CNN's Lisa Respers France contributed to this report.
Daily Mail
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Al Pacino's son Roman is the image of his famous father when he was young as his mom takes him to park in LA
Al Pacino 's little look-alike son Roman was spotted enjoying a fun day at the park with his mom in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The Oscar winner, 85, shares the boy with film producer Noor Alfallah, 31, and the little one has inherited his father's black wavy hair and looks. Mother and son were seen enjoying the slide at sunny Coldwater Canyon Park. Alfallah wore faded black jeans with a matching hoodie and monochrome adidas sneakers. Roman, who turns two on June 30, looked adorable in a white T-shirt, black shorts, and beige sneakers. The toddler held on tight to a little snack pack as he and his mother took their turn on the slide. Pacino and Alfallah began their short relationship after bumping in to each other at the celebrity hotspot E Baldi in Beverly Hills a year. 'I thought it was cool. I thought, wow, that's Al Pacino. I went to film school, so I wasn't dumb about who he was,' she told Vogue Arabia. 'He's a very talented and unique person. But I had no intention of thinking like, "Oh, he is going to be my son's father one day."' The two discovered they lived close by each other and during the pandemic, she said, 'we started spending every day together, playing chess and watching movies. It was like film school with Al Pacino,' she said of the experience. Explaining the transition from friends to lovers, she said merely: 'I guess, it just became something more.' Although many were surprised at the 53-year age gap, Alfallah seemed to take it all in stride. 'I've been an old soul all my life,' she claimed. 'I have friends who are 70 years old; men and women who are just totally my friends who I love, who I'd rather be with than people my age. I've always been like that.' 'I don't know why. I think I like the wisdom, the experience, the life in them. That's attractive to me.' Alfallah and Pacino are not together romantically any more, but they reunited professionally for their next project. She is a producer on Dead Man's Wire, a film based on the true story of a former real estate developer who takes the mortgage banker who did him wrong hostage using a sawed-off shotgun, demanding $5million and a personal apology. Pacino stars along with Bill Skarsgard and Coleman Domingo in the historical thriller set for release later this year.
