Diane Keaton On Feeling Miscast In ‘The Godfather’: ‘I’m Supposed To Be More Of A Comedy-Type Person’
etcanada.comDiane Keaton still doesn’t get why she was cast in “The Godfather”. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress was asked about her past statements about feeling miscast in Francis Ford Coppola’s classic gangster drama. “Oh, are you kidding?
Of course! I was terrified,” Keaton said. “I didn’t understand why me. I mean, I went up to the audition. I didn’t even really — I hadn’t read it.
See, this is bad! But I needed a job, so I got up there. I’d been auditioning around for about a year, and then this happened like that.
And I kept thinking, ‘Why me? Why would he cast me?’ I didn’t understand it. I still don’t, really.” In the film, which featured one of her early breakout roles, Keaton played Kay Corleone, the wife of soldier-turned-mafia boss Michael Corleone, played by Al Pacino.
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