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Al Pacinoone of Hollywood’s most iconic actors, surprised the world by sharing details about a critical episode in his life that occurred in 2020.
During a recent interview, The cinema legend confessed that he was on the verge of death, revealing for the first time that his heart stopped beating for a few moments.
“He had no pulse,” Pacino said. remembering what could have been a tragic ending for your career and personal life.
Al Pacino almost died in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic
Al Pacino has revealed that he almost died of Covid-19 in 2020even temporarily losing his pulse. During a recent interview with New York Times, before the release of his memoir “Sonny Boy,” The legendary actor shared details about his near-death experience in the middle of the pandemic.
“What happened was that I didn’t feel good, unusually bad. Then I had a fever and I was getting dehydrated and all that. So I asked someone to get me a nurse to hydrate me.”Pacino confessed, explaining the critical moment when his body began to fail.
The actor, 80 years old at the time, he lost his pulse while at home and revealed that in a matter of minutes, the ambulance was at his home and Pacino was surrounded by paramedics attending to him.
“I was sitting up and I was gone. I had no pulse. Within minutes, they were there, the ambulance was in front of my house. There were about six paramedics in the living room and two doctors who were wearing suits that looked like they came from space outside,” Al Pacino recalled.
The scene was surreal, and when he opened his eyes, the medical team informed him that he had come back to life: “Everyone was around me saying, ‘He’s back. He’s here.'”
Throughout the conversation, Pacino was questioned about whether this close experience Death had had some kind of metaphysical impact on him.
“Actually, yes. I didn’t see the white light or anything. There’s nothing there,” the actor responded, quoting Hamlet’s famous line: “‘The unknown country from whose confines no traveler returns.’ There was no more. You left. “.
This incident not only allowed Pacino to reflect on death, but also about how his perspective has changed with age.
“It’s just like that. I didn’t ask for it. It just comes, like many things,” said the actor, who has made peace with the inevitability of the end.
Al Pacino promotes his memoirs in his new book
Pacino also took this opportunity to talk about his new memoir, Sonny Boythat will be published on October 8 by Penguin Random House.
In this “astonishingly revealing” memoir, Pacino looks back on his childhood in New York, his training at the High School of Performing Arts, his first steps in avant-garde theater and, of course, his consecration in cinema with films like The Godfather, Serpico and dog afternoon.
In a press releaseAl Pacino expresses that the creation of his memoirs It has been a deeply personal and revealing experience.
As he reflects on his life and career, he recognizes the impact that acting has had on his life, not only in terms of professional success, but also in how it has allowed him to explore different aspects of the human condition and delve into worlds that you may never have known otherwise.
“It’s been an incredibly personal and eye-opening experience to reflect on this journey and what acting has allowed me to do. My whole life has been a trip to the moon, and I’ve been a very lucky guy so far.”
With this memoir, Pacino promises to open up like never before and share both the successes and the struggles that have defined his legendary career.
