Veteran actor Al Pacino reflected on his experience during the pandemic, revealing that he felt he had "experienced death" after fainting due to illness from COVID-19 in 2020.
The 84-year-old actor, known for his roles in classics like The Godfather trilogy, Scarface, and Heat, recounted a moment when a nurse informed him that he had no pulse. Pacino, who is eager to release his upcoming memoir Sonny Boy, praised his "great assistant" Michael Quinn for promptly reaching out to paramedics during the incident.
In an interview with People magazine he said, "He got the people coming, because the nurse that was taking care of me said, 'I don’t feel a pulse on this guy.' So I couldn’t have died, because how did all those people gather together, the ambulance in front of my house. I thought I experienced death. I might not have. I don’t think I have, really. I know I made it."
The multiple award-winning actor stated that although everyone around him believed he was dead, he himself did not feel as though he had truly passed away. "How could I be dead? If I was dead, I fainted. And when I opened my eyes, there were six paramedics in my living room. There was an ambulance outside the door, and two of my doctors in those space suits (like) on Mars. I looked around and I thought, What happened to me?" Pacino said.
He also added saying, "It was gone. As Shakespeare in Hamlet says, ’No more. To be, or not to be.’ And then he says, ’No more’. And it’s no more. Well, it’s not. I don’t know, who knows?".
Asked if his health scare changed the way he now lives his life, Pacino said, "Not at all."
The actor is set to appear in Johnny Depp's directorial project, Modi – Three Days on the Wing of Madness, which is scheduled for release on December 5.
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