{"id":9959,"date":"2010-11-23T22:59:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T22:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2010-11-23T22:59:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T22:59:22","slug":"robert-duvall-on-the-godfather-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/11\/23\/robert-duvall-on-the-godfather-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Duvall on The Godfather III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4kFpSMLPl58&amp;feature=related\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9960\" title=\"Robert Duvall on The Godfather III\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Robert-Duvall-on-The-Godfather-III.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 1991 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Duvall\">Robert Duvall<\/a><\/strong> gave an unusually frank interview with Bob Costas, in which he revealed why he didn&#8217;t appear in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Godfather_Part_III\">The Godfather III<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Hagen\">Tom Hagen<\/a>, the Corleone&#8217;s in-house lawyer and consigliere, in the first two films he was under no illusions that the reasons Part III came about were financial.<\/p>\n<p>Added to that, he was upset that Pacino was offered 5 times the amount he was going to get.<\/p>\n<p>His analysis of the film is spot on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you see the movie, it is not as good as the first two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I thought the premise was very interesting &#8230;but when I did see it, &#8230;it just wasn&#8217;t as good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;It was fifteen years later and it was like it had been done. &#8230;They did it for money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch the interview below, in two parts:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4kFpSMLPl58?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4kFpSMLPl58?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TYZTLN21kIo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TYZTLN21kIo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000380\/\">Robert Duvall<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godfather_Trilogy\">The Godfather series<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1991 Robert Duvall gave an unusually frank interview in which he revealed why he didn&#8217;t appear in The Godfather III<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1690,518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}