The true story behind 'The Offer,' a series about the making of 'The Godfather'
Mario Puzo sends Marlon Brando a letter asking him if he’d be interested in playing Don Corleone. Mario assumes it’s a longshot that Marlon will even get the note, but it ends up being the key to landing the iconic actor for the part. Puzo really did” Puzo wrote. “I think you’re the only actor who can play the part with that quiet force and irony the part requires.” ThatBrando was intrigued by the note, but the studio was concerned that the 47-year-old actor,, was a financial risk.
They also made Coppola shoot a secret screen test with Brando. In 2020, Coppola described the experience of going to Brando’s house and watching him create Vito Corleone on a whim to: “He rolls up his hair, takes some shoe polish and makes his [blonde] hair dark. He says, ‘The character gets shot in the throat so maybe he talks like this’… He puts some Kleenex in his mouth. He did it all himself and then he took the little cheese and he nibbled it.
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