Tracy Letts
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Duvall did not – not to mention a lifetime on stage, which Duvall did not have, right?
Early stage work, and then he went back a couple of times, but not consistently.
So I don't think of him as an Olivier type.
He's more workmanlike than that, right?
The period between Godfather and Godfather Part II is two years, right?
Al Pacino makes two movies between those two.
I think James Caan makes three movies between those two.
How many movies did Robert Duvall make between those two?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
And a couple of leads in there as well.
So, again, the comp is hard to come by.
In some ways, the comp would be closer to Robert De Niro or Meryl Streep in the kind of variety of roles that they were asked to play, allowed to play, wanted to play.