Al Pacino Is Conan’s Favorite Actor | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I'm alpacino and I am hopeful about. being Conan O'Brien's friend that's nice. it's really nice you want a friend of. stutters yeah I think I'm out by the way. who can't read that didn't come from the. heart at all I thought you give some. great it came from the heart is please. get this right you need a little heart. to do all right I got to tell you. something I've never said this before on. the uh on the podcast we've I've talked. to everybody talked to.

presidents you sir yes you sir put your. phone away for. this put your phone away for this this. is a huge honor for you what I'm about. to say it is yeah this is no higher. honor than what I'm about to say to you. you are my favorite actor and this is. the most excited I've been to talk to. anybody this is a big deal for. me alucino I'm blessed that you are here. oh well wow thank you for that I'm. taking my sunglasses off now you did. that one got.

off thank you so much and I want to say. this so you've written this book sunny. boy it is your story your. autobiography and they got me an. advanced. copy and uh I hold myself up in my room. and I read this thing and it is a. spectacular book this is the best. biography I can remember reading it is. such an amazing story I thought I knew. everything about you it's an Incredible.

Book congratulations oh thank you that's. that's a wonderful compliment thank you. yeah and that's all the time we have yes. it's been nice having you here I'm not. having that kind of luck. today let me tell you something uh I'm. hardpressed to think of anyone who's had. more iconic performances than you you. are in the just such Elite company of. actors 20th century 21st century actors. and I read this story and there's so.

much despair in it there are Highs but. there are. lows to people like me that think about. alucino I just think oh it's just been. what a miraculous. NeverEnding series of successes but your. childhood your childhood in the South. Bronx yeah I'm reading about it and it. could have been the 1890s I mean I know. it's the 1940s early 50s but you're. running around like one of the dead end. kids with a gang do you know what I mean. it's absolutely incredible and you're.

constantly almost getting. killed I mean well it still goes on you. know way up here you know yeah it's a. tough part of central Hollywood right. here you know Beverly Hills there are. some sections but uh DOD those but no I. mean it you're talking about this period. of your life and it is it feels like it. could be a hundred years ago it's it's. such a crazy experience and what you. went through your father leaves when. you're two years old a little less than.

no yeah a little yeah two just go go. with two please okay let's just go. number you know you were 1.9 your father. left and your. mom uh is has mental health issues and. then she uh passes away when you're. still a very young man and you live kind. of a chaotic young life that was a real. surprise to me I didn't know that really.

yeah had you ever heard of any part of. my life at all I had I knew that you had. been in theater and that your uh success. it always felt to me that the alucino. story was young guy doing theater gets. The Godfather hits it out of the park. and then the rest is spectacular I read. this story and it's almost. miraculous that you get out of childhood. do you know what I mean that's the. feeling I had yeah that's good I.

I didn't mean that for you to have that. feeling but it's great you had a feeling. you know I haven't had a feeling in a. very long time I know I'm try reading. the first two chapters of my book I'm. I'm doing the audio of it now uh and uh. it's really a knockout it really knocks. you out I mean you start seeing your. life and and you you know in order to. read a book uh on on you know you have. to act the act the parts uh because you.

just read a monotone some of the. monotone readers wonderful I mean I. really get the the the great Shawn Penn. reads Bob Dylan I read that did anybody. hear that book I haven't heard that one. no I've heard Shawn Penn sings Bob Dylan. I don't I don't recommend it I don't. recommend it he ends up punching the. microphone oh my god oh well he got he. got Bob Dylan he really he really got. his tone and and um so I'm reading these.

stories and of course I live through. them so I I'm sort of reliving them yeah. and it's uh it's it's tough I would. think it's tough because you run around. with this gang of kids South Bronx. you're you know I know that you were and. you point out that your mom did keep an. eye on you you did feel that you were. more supervised than some a lot of your. friends don't make it yeah they die yeah. they die they get into heroin MH um and.

it's very poignant because you start the. book with them and then at the end of. the book after this incredible career. you go back and kind of dedicate it yeah. to these guys that didn't get out of the. South Bronx which is very powerful uh. yeah I don't know if you felt like. almost. like I might might be reaching here but. was there a little bit of survivors. guilt there like how did I get out and. they didn't get well I always thought. about that yeah I I the uh the thing.

that was so interesting to me that I I. recalled was one of my friends dying uh. and being buried and and and around it. with these just you remember the one I. say about this sort of uh cold. January morning or something all around. Bleak and Bruce is lowed and uh the. mother's crying who I knew of course as. as and and and this aunt or somebody I.

never saw starts to relate her her. feelings about bruis and what she. thought happened to him yeah and it was. so profound and so this is someone I. knew I did comedy routines with him we. we used to do that stuff and she's so. out of nowhere like just read him so. wonderfully and and I learned about him. and it was uh that was shocking to me. you talk about it in the book and it's.

interesting because obviously so many. people are going to pick up this book. and say I want to hear about and these. are things you know I want to hear about. the Godfather movies I want to hear. about you know all these iconic roles. all the people you knew all the people. you met but to me the in a way the most. fascinating aspect of it is that you. start with these. people you get out and when I say you. get out you are none of us understands.

why I mean I've had some crazy good. fortune in my life and I don't. understand why yeah and I stopped trying. to figure it out a while ago I was. driving here. today I have a ritual with my brothers. where we watch The Godfather movies. religiously we can quote them from. beginning to end we always quote them to. each other and I'm talking to my brother. Luke and I said I'm guess where I'm. going I'm going to work today and I'm. going to talk to an interview Al Pacino. and my brother said I'm very proud of.

you but who the are you to talk to. Al why you and I said Luke I Luke I. don't know but I'm just gonna I'm gonna. go with I think he should be here let's. bring him. in he's a criminal. ome he's in prison right now Luke we're. thinking of you.