In HBOs Paterno, Al Pacino plays Joe Paterno, the famed football coach at. He knew there were rumors,” Pacino said, according to IndieWire. Joe Posnanskis New York Times best-selling book, Paterno, is rumored to be turned into a motion picture with none other than Al Pacino being talked about. In HBO’s “Paterno,” Al Pacino plays Joe Paterno. “The question isn’t just what he knew, it’s what he did about it. In our brief glimpse of Paterno, which will be released in the spring, the actor seemingly has the all-time winningest coach’s iconic raspy voice nailed down much better than the film’s rendition of the now-removed statue. Pacino has been linked to the role for several years, well before HBO confirmed the film would happen. “I know about the character I played in the movie and that character was as close to a savant as I’d ever played.” The upcoming Paterno is their second collaboration with Pacino as star and Levinson as director, following the Jack Kevorkian-centric You Don’t Know Jack. Paterno marks the actor’s third collaboration with Levinson as director, the first being another fact-based HBO film, 2010’s You Don’t Know Jack, which deservedly earned Pacino an Emmy. “I don’t know anything about Joe Paterno,” Pacino said during HBO’s presentation at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, according to . This line, of course, carries an added resonance with Al Pacino cast in the titular role. ![]() Al Pacino’s racked up awards through the decades in famous roles as Michael Corleone, Frank Serpico, and Tony Montana, but ahead of his debut as Joe Paterno in the upcoming HBO film, he’s still learning the role of the former Penn State coach. As Paterno, Pacino expertly winds through the complicated internal emotions of a man who devoted his life to leading young men into adulthood only to realize, in slow horror, that while.
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