“I had no pulse”

Al Pacino has revealed that he almost died from COVID-19 in 2020, even temporarily losing his pulse.

The legendary actor revealed details of his ‘astonishingly revealing’ memoir Sunny boy back in March, which will be released on Tuesday (October 8). To pre-order the memoir, visit here.

In an interview with the New York Times Before the book’s release, Pacino shared that he had a near-death experience during the pandemic. “What happened was I didn’t feel well – unusually not well. Then I got a fever and got dehydrated and everything. So I found someone who got me a nurse to hydrate me,” he told the publication.

‘I was sitting there in my house and I was gone. Like this. I had no pulse. Within a few minutes they were there: the ambulance in front of my house. I had about six paramedics in that living room, and there were two doctors, and they had clothes on that looked like they came from outer space or something. It was quite shocking to open your eyes and see that. Everyone was standing around me and they said, ‘He’s back. He’s here. ”

Pacino was then asked if the experience had any “metaphysical ripples,” to which he replied, “Indeed it did. I didn’t see the white light or anything. There’s nothing there.

“As Hamlet says, ‘To be or not to be’; ‘The undiscovered land from which no traveler returns.’ And he says two words: ‘no more.’ It was no more. You’re gone. I had never thought about it in my life. But you know actors: it sounds good to say that I died once. What is it when there is nothing left?”

The actor went on to explain that his views on death have evolved with age, saying, “It’s just the way it is. I didn’t ask for it. It just comes, like so many things just come.”

Sunny boy will be published by Penguin Random House and is described in a press release as the “memoir of a man with nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide.” The statement continues, calling the book “an astonishingly revealing account of a creative life in its entirety.”

The memoir chronicles the legendary actor’s childhood in New York, his upbringing with his “fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents,” his group of friends in the Bronx and the years he spent at the legendary High School of Performing Arts in New York. .

Pacino will also discuss his work in New York’s avant-garde theater scene in the ’60s and ’70s, before his big film breakthrough with The Panic of Needle Park, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon.

Speaking of Sunny boy in a press release, Pacino said: “It has been an incredibly personal and revelatory experience to reflect on this journey and what acting has allowed me to do and the worlds it has opened up. My whole life has been a bull’s-eye, and so far I’ve been very lucky.”

In other news, Pacino will reprise his role as a mafia boss in a new kidnapping thriller. He made his name playing mafia bosses and gangsters in films like The godfather, The IrishmanAnd Scarfaceand will now play a real-life mafia boss in the film Fascinated.

Filming will begin later this winter in Italy. The director is Dito Montiel (Man down) who co-wrote the script with Robin Shushan and Mammoliti.