17 October,2019 07:32 AM IST | | Mohar Basu
Ali Fazal and Al Pacino
As Ali Fazal turned a year older on October 15, he marked the occasion with an intimate dinner with Death On The Nile co-stars Gal Gadot and Annette Bening in London. Interestingly, the actor jokes that he received his birthday gift a day earlier - Fazal, who was attending the London Film Festival, met his screen idol Al Pacino at the screening of The Irishman.
"It has been a lifelong journey to finally arrive at this moment when I got to meet the man himself," enthuses Fazal. The actor says that he grew up on a steady diet of Pacino's classics, including The Godfather series and Scarface (1983). He further reveals that he harboured the dream of meeting the legend since his college days.
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"My friends Vijay and Aalaap, and I used to fill up the walls of our hostel room with posters of the movies that we would like to watch. Over the years, I watched each and every film on that list. And that day, I could not believe that I was meeting those very actors whom I had seen while growing up." During his interaction with the Hollywood superstar, Fazal told Pacino how his mother - an avid fan of the legend - had narrated the story of The Godfather to him as a fairytale.
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