Al Pacino Cracks Up 'Tonight Show' With Story About His Most Engaged Audience
Actor Al Pacino said Monday he had never performed before a more rapt theater audience than one night in Boston. Then he revealed the surprising reason why. (Watch the video below.)
In an appearance on āThe Tonight Showā to promote the second season of āHuntersā on Prime Video, Pacino took viewers back to the 1970s when he appeared in āThe Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel,ā for which he would later win a Tony.
Pacino said he felt āsomeoneās eyes riveted on me and that was the first time it ever happened to me. ... And I started doing the performance for that part of the audience.ā The connection grew āoverpowering,ā he continued.
When the show ended, Pacino said, he was determined to see the eyes that kept seizing his attention from the corner.
āFirst thing I do, I go right to that corner and I see that thereās two seeing-eye dogs right in the audience.ā
Host Jimmy Fallon doubled over with laughter.
āIt was amazing to me,ā the āScent of a Womanā Oscar winner added. āAnd then I thought, thatās what theater is.ā