Coppola Chides 3 Oscar-Winning Actors
AP
Everyone wants to work with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson _ except Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola _ who directed Pacino and De Niro in "The Godfather" trilogy _ says the trio of Oscar-winning actors have become apathetic. "I don't feel that kind of passion to do a role and be great coming from those guys, because if it was there, they would do it! I mean, they're all in a position to do it," the 68-year-old filmmaker tells GQ magazine in its November issue, on newsstands Tuesday. "Pacino always wanted to do theater. He wanted to do `Peer Gynt.' He wanted to do Shakespeare. Pacino will say, `Oh, I was raised next to a furnace in New York, and I'm never going to L.A.,' but they all live off the fat of the land," Coppola says. He calls De Niro "wealthy and powerful" _ and more ambitious than Nicholson. "I think if there was a role that De Niro was hungry for, he would come after it. I don't think Jack would," he says. "Jack has money and influence and girls, and I think he's a little bit like (Marlon) Brando, except Brando went through some tough times." Nicholson _ a front-row regular at the Oscars and at Los Angeles Laker games _ "was always kind of a joker" and a Hollywood schmooze, says Coppola. "He's got a little bit of a mean streak," he says. "He's intelligent, always wired in with the big guys and the big bosses of the studios." Adds Coppola: "I don't know what any of them want anymore." ___ On the Net: GQ magazine:
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