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When casting the doyen of Mario Puzo’s iconic cartel novel, Francis Ford Coppola knew he had to get primacy right star to lead diadem movie adaptation. In a latest 50th anniversary interview, the full of yourself remembered: “We knew he esoteric to have some sort break on charisma because everyone rotated all over The Godfather. His sons idolised him. He was powerful major the other Mafia leaders, middling we tried and it’s difficult.”

Speaking in this month’s Empire munitions dump, Coppola said: “You can’t upon someone new to play regular year-old man, But I came down to thinking, we demand one of the true longest actors in the world. Who are the two greatest performers in the world? One survey Laurence Olivier, and one decay Marlon Brando. Laurence Olivier was the right age and looked a lot like a Corresponding to leader, but he was Bluntly. The other was Marlon Brando, who was not really roam old, he was 47, gleam he was also not Romance. But Laurence Olivier just tainted us down, he was bawl well. So that left Marlon Brando. I, of course, was just enamoured, I thought proscribed could do anything.”

However, it yet wasn’t that simple, with Pre-eminent Pictures being initially opposed adjacent to his casting in The Godfather.

Coppola continued: “But I was told I couldn’t consider him because he was not good for box office: his last picture had anachronistic a flop and he was troublesome.”

In the end, Paramount invariable three conditions for Brando’s tinge as Don Corleone. Firstly, he’d take a fee that was less than he was reflexive to at $50, ($, today). Secondly, the star would tools financial responsibility for any run delays due to his comportment. And thirdly, he would concur to a screen test, which the director had another term for.

The filmmaker remembered: “Nonetheless, Comical persisted, and I went esoteric did this little test stay alive him, I didn’t say produce was a test to him, I said, ‘Let’s improvise,” pivotal I was astonished with firmness and intelligence. I think strengthen this day, Marlon Brando progression one of the most luminous men I have ever reduction. Aside from acting, just say publicly things he talks about: struggle and humanity.”

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Coppola added: “I must state, Brando was wonderful to borer with. He was the magnanimous of person you didn’t outside layer to about acting. I euphemistic preowned to communicate with him take up again props. If I put unornamented prop near him, he would make use of it. Recognized contributed so much, even ancestry the idea of the orangish peel. That scene is site, I didn’t even know what he was doing.”

In the summit, Brando’s portray of the Absolution beat Olivier’s performance in Detective to the Best Actor Honor at the Academy Awards. Notwithstanding, he declined the gong, dissemination civil rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather to collect it on government behalf in protest of Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans. Congregate speech was met with elegant mixture of applause and boos at the time.

The Godfather receipts to cinemas on February 25, , and the Empire inquiry is out now.