These were the memories shared, 45 years later, on the making of The Godfather in a rare reunion of the film’s cast and director Francis Ford Coppola in New York.
While both films are widely viewed as among the finest ever made, Coppola and cast spoke again and again about the films’ humble origins.
After the lengthy wedding scene, Pacino said, he and Keaton “got so loaded, we were on the floor”.
(De Niro, who ended up playing young Don Vito Corleone in Part II, also auditioned for the part of Sonny.)