did you make a stage debut with a david mamet play?d. you've been doing your homework, it was back in the paleolithic period, before there were cars. >> seth: and there were no cell phones to go off. people would bang rocks together. >> i took my buggy to see it. [ laughter ] >> seth: but you replaced, madonna. that's crazy! >> i did! >> jimmy: you did a show you basically took over her part. >> this is when madonna was like lady gaga. she was huge. >> seth: that must have been where people -- [ laughter ] was there an overlap of the first week you were doing it, people still thought they were going to see madonna? >> they were so disappointed. [ laughter ] it was so bad. people would come to the theater, and -- you know, because you go in from the stage door, and you see the ticket sellers. i can't tell you the lines of the people that were going, i want my money back. i don't know who she is. it said, "felicity huffman who" is replacing madonna. >> seth: that's a rough person to follow. >> she did two nice things for me. she left the

charlie: you mentioned david mamet. what is it about the two of you? pacino: it's coming out in the fall. charlie: do the words speak to you? does he have a sense of her? -- of character? pacino: i think he and i just hear it. collaborating and he is doing all the work. i am there. someone to bounce off of. i am home thinking about something. a few days later, a week later. just go with that. charlie: the power of observation. pacino: to call him a great writer is a redundancy. but the same time, he surprises me. charlie: you have done that more than once. pacino: i was in the movie and then i did the play. charlie: i know. pacino: sullivan wanted me to play it. and i thought, yes. this is the time to play because i learned about it in the movie a certain way. with theater, you can just explore more. with movies, it's hard to explain. i knew it would be different. charlie: do you want to be in my bath? -- macbeth? pacino: i've heard that lately. charlie: it is the myth of the theater that you cannot mention the name. pacino: i don't know. it's just gre

i came out and i said the opening soliloquy written by david mamet.doing this scene and i'm on stage for about 10 minutes. and i realized i had not moved. i had not moved from the spot. so what happens, the economy came. that thing came. it wasn't there for years, then it just came. charlie: the act of art in sculpture is getting it down to a size. it is taking a role or obtaining. it is in a sense defining it down to where it works for you. stripping away. so that what you see is the essence of a character of the scene. pacino: sports, too. you say, he didn't do anything. of course, that's what you go for. charlie: you mentioned david mamet. what is it about the two of you? pacino: yes, i will be with him and a new play that is coming out in the fall. charlie: do the words speak to you? does he have a sense of character? pacino: i think he and i just hear it. collaborating and he is doing all the work. i am there. it is a good to have someone to bounce off of. i am home thinking about something. i see him a few days later, a week later. and he has wr

charlie: you mentioned david mamet. what is it about the two of you? pacino: it's coming out in the what is it about the two of you? you are going to be with him again. al: it's coming out in the fall. charlie: do the words speak to you? does he have a sense of character? al: he presents the world in a way and i think he and i just hear it. we are colleagues on this play he is doing, collaborating and he is doing all the work. i am there. it's good to have someone, even him, to bounce off of. i am home thinking about something. i see him there a few days later, a week later. and he has written down what i was thinking about. so i think, ok, just go with that. charlie: the power of observation. al: it was just -- he is such a -- to call him a great writer is a redundancy. but the same time, he surprises me. he understands. charlie: you have done that more than once. pacino: i was in the movie and then i did the play. charlie: i know. al: i knew the great dan sullivan, the director, wanted me to play it. and i thought, yes. this is the time to play becau