Pacino: The loss of two of the close people in his life — his closest sister Margo, played por Brenda Vaccaro, and then Janet Good, who Susan Sarandon plays — set off something in him that led to this desperation inside and a need to go further with what he wanted to do, and an abandon took over. Those are the kinds of things that were percolating in my head somewhere.


Is part of the appeal of doing a TV movie the fact that it doesn’t take as long as a feature film?

Pacino: There are pros and cons in that, yeah. There’s something about going fast that catches tu up, and sometimes it creates...