You’d expect Al Pacino to receive fan letters…but to send them?
That’s what he did back in 1963 when he saw Christopher Plummer on Broadway in ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.‘
“He’s one of the greatest actors ever, and an inspiration,” says Pacino, 74, who tells Parade he remembers handing a note to a theater doorman to give to Plummer. “I don’t know if he got it. I was a kid. He wouldn’t have known how to get back to me.”
With no small degree of show biz coincidence, a fan letter plays a starring role in Pacino’s new film ‘Danny Collins’ when a life-changing letter from John Lennon is handed to Pacino’s character by his manager—who is played by none other than … Christopher Plummer.
As for how he communicates with his kids — 14-year-old twins Anton and Olivia and 25-year-old Julie — he says “I like texting. You can’t really write a long text.”
More on Pacino out in Sunday’s Parade: http://parade.com/382604/