<p>Hollywood great Al Pacino opened up about the movie role he said he regrets not doing as he jokingly took a dig at Harrison Ford — who he said has never thanked him for landing the part in &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; that would launch his career.</p>
<p>During the 82-year-old actor&#8217;s recent appearance with David Rubenstein for the 92NY&#8217;s &#8220;People Who Inspire Us&#8221; series, Pacino said there&#8217;s only one role he regrets to this day turning down and it&#8217;s George Lucas&#8217; 1977 monster film, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/al-pacino-godfather-turning-down-star-wars-the-offer-1235392646/">Hollywood Reporter</a> reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;I turned down ‘Star Wars,'&#8221; Pacino said. &#8220;When I first came up, I was the new kid on the block, you know what happens when you first become famous.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So I was there and all of a sudden they gave me a script that was called &#8216;Star Wars,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;I said, &#8216;I got the script, they offered me so much money, but I don&#8217;t understand it.'&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Al Pacino Recalls Turning Down ‘Star Wars’ Despite ‘So Much Money,’ Jokes: ‘I Gave Harrison Ford a Career’ <a href="https://t.co/AdmLn9CcKL">https://t.co/AdmLn9CcKL</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Variety (@Variety) <a href="https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1649119087656566808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The &#8220;Scent of a Woman&#8221; star said he decided eventually to turn it down for that reason, before he joked, &#8220;I gave Harrison Ford a career, which he has never thanked me for!&#8221;</p>
<p>At one point in the hour-long chat, the &#8220;Scarface&#8221; star was also asked if he thinks the original 1972 gangster movie &#8220;The Godfather&#8221; is &#8220;superior&#8221; to the second one &#8220;The Godfather Part II&#8221; released in 1974.</p>
<p>&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t,&#8221; Pacino said. &#8220;I really think it&#8217;s more — what would you call it — artistic or something, I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t mean to play it down and be overly modest because I star in it with Bob de Niro, but at the same time, it&#8217;s a different film.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You see, &#8216;The Godfather is more entertaining,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;Godfather II is this study, this personal thing for Francis [Ford Coppola],&#8221; he added. &#8220;Godfather I, I saw it recently, it&#8217;s always got two or three things going on in a scene. You&#8217;re always in the story, you&#8217;re going.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen next, it&#8217;s storytelling, it&#8217;s really storytelling at its best,&#8221; &#8220;The Devils Advocate&#8221; star continued. &#8220;Godfather II sort of linearizes, and [it&#8217;s] kind of different, somber, moves slowly. But it&#8217;s a great movie, I have to say.&#8221;</p>

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