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• The film was shot over four years during and around Al Pacino's filming schedule, also while he was not working on any major film projects. This is visible during the film because he is seen growing a beard and hair cut for the film Carlito's Way (1993) as one example.
  
  
• Al Pacino himself recruited both Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin to appear in the film while filming Glengarry Glen Ross (1992).
  
  
• While making this documentary, Al Pacino had amassed some 80-plus hours of footage and it took six editors to cut it down to the film's theatrical length.
  
  
• All the actors that appear in the film, all worked for scale in which at one point Alec Baldwin jokingly admitted during the film "Here I am working for forty bucks a day and have all the donuts you can eat".
  
  
• Pacino originally wanted to make a straight film of the play, as opposed to a documentary, but he discovered that he would not be able to top Laurence Olivier's 1955 version.
  
  

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