Al Pacino Kept His Nose Clean
For all the drugs his character did, Pacino — seen above with Scarface director Brian De Palma — took a pass, according to Stone.
“It surprised me that Al had never snorted cocaine or known anything about drugs,” Stone wrote in his memoir, adding that producer Martin Bregman told him Pacino “had a serious alcohol problem when younger but was now completely dry. Yet he had no problem behaving onscreen like the ultimate coke addict.”
Not that surprising, really — Pacino is one of the greatest actors of all.