The director recently described to the New York Times how the two actors work differently, and, somehow, it’s not shocking to learn that De Niro is more deliberate while Pacino is maybe a bit less so.
However, while Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are two icons of a generation of film, they’ve rarely found themselves together on screen.
This makes Martin Scorsese one of the few directors who has worked with the two at exactly the same time.