For Hollywood Diane Keaton, the offer to star in the iconic blockbuster ‘The Godfather’ was so compelling that she couldn’t refuse even though she hadn’t read author Mario Puzo’s book of the same name on which the movie is based, before auditioning for her part in the film.
The Academy Award winner admitted to ‘People’ magazine that she auditioned for ‘The Godfather’ without “having ever read” the book as she reflected on her career during her Hand & Footprint Ceremony Thursday at Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Keaton, who played Kay Adams-Corleone, the wife of Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone in the film, told ‘People’, “I think the kindest thing that someone’s ever done for me … is that I got cast to be in ‘The Godfather’ and I didn’t even read it. I didn’t know a single thing. I just was going around auditioning. I...
The Academy Award winner admitted to ‘People’ magazine that she auditioned for ‘The Godfather’ without “having ever read” the book as she reflected on her career during her Hand & Footprint Ceremony Thursday at Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Keaton, who played Kay Adams-Corleone, the wife of Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone in the film, told ‘People’, “I think the kindest thing that someone’s ever done for me … is that I got cast to be in ‘The Godfather’ and I didn’t even read it. I didn’t know a single thing. I just was going around auditioning. I...
- 8/12/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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