The story goes thatRobert DuvallmadeJames Caanan offer he couldn’t refuse.
Brando, a consummate prankster, won the contest in the end.
“[Director Francis Ford] Coppola would say, ‘Come on, guys.
Robert Duvall (L) and Marlon Brando.Everett Collection
We got to be serious.’
But he knew that by all this fooling around and having fun, it relaxed everybody.
Being irreverent in a positive way made the set more loose.”
“He loved Jimmy.
Jimmy was funny the whole time, but he was not inGodfatherII.
So,The Godfatherwas a bit more fun.”
The clip is part of a passel of special features on the new 4k Ultra HD release ofThe Godfathertrilogy.
“It was part of the game, part of the fun,” he says.
“Listen, that’s the way he works.
I tried that once.
It didn’t work.
it’s possible for you to do that for spontaneity to keep it fresh, to be always searching.
But I think you could learn the lines perfectly and still have spontaneity.”
“I call it from ink to behavior.
“A lot of directors say, ‘Do this, do that,'” Duvall notes.”
He wasn’t like that.
He wanted to see how you would interpret the part and he would listen and watch."
“He was an outsider but they made him an insider to a point,” he says.
“They entrusted him with certain valued activities.
But he couldn’t overstep that line.
And I couldn’t overstep that line as an actor or as the character.”
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