# dunka, dunka, dunka, dunka dunkaccino! and, boom, there you have it.s actually 32 seconds, so i gotta lose two seconds. maybe you can tell me what part you would lose, but i think we are getting there. burn this. i made, uh...i made some adjustments. but i still... every role i play, i'm playing it_ it's serious to me. i'm going to try to present something. with my successes, my failures, it's like, you know, you just keep going. you just keep going. that's it. hey, remember me? benny blanco from the bronx? over the years, al pacino has died on screen more times than most, usually dispatched with a bullet. but in 2020, an encounter with covid resulted in a real—life near—death experience. you seem to still be trying to work out whether you did die or not. i don't think i died. i thought i did. it felt like i did, because there was something — then there was nothing. no fall, no anything. there was just nothing. which was, in retrospect, was sort of frightening. everybody sort of flipped out. i was out. when i opened my eyes, there were five paramedics