Al Pacino has admitted that he loves the speed and spontaneity of working in television.
The Oscar winning actor will be back on the small screen as he stars in You Don't Know Jack, taking on the role of Dr Jack Kevorkian, for HBO.
In an interview with Collier the actor said: There’s something about going fast that catches you up, and sometimes it creates certain spontaneity. But, you’re going fast with highly tuned people who are there and are with it, and they’re not going so fast that they’re negligent. It’s just the nature of the beast.
"You have to do it because it’s all about how much money there is to do these things. But, I’ve done it before. I did another HBO thing and felt the same way. It’s just that there were so many scenes in this. At one point, we did 16 scenes in two days, and that is a lot of stuff in two days.
"At the same time, it was exciting because that lent an energy to the thing because you’re in the hands of Barry Levinson. You’re in the hands of a consummate filmmaker, so you know he’s operating. And, they used a lot of cameras, which is also helpful.
"If I had it to do over again, I would say, 'Yeah, sure.'I would do it. You do get very tired sometimes, when you’re sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted. Here, that didn’t happen.
Al Pacino hasn't been seen on the big screen since Righteous Kill in 2008 but apart from You Don't Know Jack the actor has a string of projects lined up.
He will take on the role of King Lear in Michael Radford's adaptation of the William Shakespeare novel before moving onto Mary Mother of Christ with Peter O'Toole and Son of No One with Channing Tatum.
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