Al Pacino Was Relieved To Have Twisted His Ankle On The Set Of 'The Godfather': "At Least Now They Could Fire Me"
Pacino, who recalls receiving the role of Michael Corleone directly from director Francis Ford Coppola over the phone as “a hundered-million-to-one-shot” in his memoir Sonny Boy, reveals that Paramount was “questioning whether [he] was the right actor for the part.”