‘The Godfather’ Cast Really Enjoyed Pranking Marlon Brando
“The Godfather” is distant from a comedy, though there were copiousness of laughs behind a scenes of a iconic mafiosi movie, according to actor Robert Duvall.
In “The Godfather,” Duvall played a even-keeled consigliere to Marlon Brando’s absolute crime boss, while James Caan played a Don’s hot-head son, Sonny. Together, a contingent of gifted stars was a fun-loving group, with Brando mostly a cooperative aim of some-more than a few pranks during a hands of his dual co-stars, Duvall tells “Oprah’s Master Class.”
“Brando desired Jimmy Caan, since Jimmy’s a humorous guy,” Duvall says. “Jimmy would tell a joke, and it’d take Brando 3 seconds to get it and afterwards he’d [laugh]. We were always joking around.”
The on-set humor, Duvall explains, was a good approach to keep things lax on set, generally when rehearsing and filming heated scenes. Even a film’s famous director, Francis Ford Coppola, seemed to have some toleration for certain lightsome pranks.
“Brando would review his lines — he does it really good — though we’d take [the script] divided when he wasn’t looking and put a marriage invitation [in a place],” Duvall says with a chuckle. “They’d have to scream ‘Cut!’ Francis would say, ‘Come on, guys,’ though he knew. He knew that by rowdiness around, it was good to keep decrease on set.”
That’s not a usually approach Duvall and Caan had fun with Brando during filming.
“One time, Brando said, ‘Can we have a moment, Coppola?’ And he prepared himself emotionally, he had a smashing impulse after Sonny’s death. So, a week after — sharpened out of context, of march — Jimmy Caan said, ‘Could Bobby have a moment?’… So we [mimicked Brando], and we only travel opposite [the set] doing nothing. Brando gives me a unwashed look,” Duvall says.
“Those were good times,” he continues. “Good times, to keep things loose.”
Duvall’s full talk front this weekend on “Oprah’s Master Class,” on Sunday, Nov. 8, during 8 p.m. ET on OWN.
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