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After the death ofJames Caan On July 6, fans look back on his main cinema roles and, of course, which includes the years 1972The Godfather. In the classic, Caan plays Sonny Corleone, the eldest son of Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), and he has several memorable scenes, including one in which he beats his brother, Carlo played byGianni Russo.

Now, according to whom you ask, you will get another story on the pivotal scene. According to Russo, Caan fought it during the shooting, causing injuries. Caan, on the other hand, denied it, but admitted to having improvised part of the combat scene. Read the rest to see what the two actors had to say about the dust.

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In an interview withPeople andWeekly entertainment Network in 2017, Russo affirmed thefight between him and caan inThe Godfatherwas more real than many could not assume.

"We choreographed this scene for about a day and a half," said Russo. "Jimmy became a little aggressive, I would say, and he improvised a few things like this little club from Billy that he threw me when I got out of the pole. He struck me in my head with that, then he Throws me on railing and he bites my hands ... And then when I crawl, he literally lifted me with his kick. Now we did everything timed, none of this was supposed to happen. ""

Russo added: "I thought he may have been in it. With my first film, I didn't want to complain about it ... He chipped my elbow with the garbage bucket and he broke two ribs . Jimmy and I are not at all friends, believe me. The guys' nuts. "

In the same interview, Russo said: "Sonny and I had a problem throughout the film, on and out of the set." He said he thought it upset Caan that he had more connection with the Harlem district where they filmed the scene. "I knew the neighborhood and everyone in the neighborhood knew me, and I think Jimmy has also annoyed," he said.

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In his 2019 book,Hollywood Godfather: My life in movies and crowds,,Russo tells a story de Caan soaring a farce over him by making him insult a real gangster. In an extract published byMale newspaper, Russo says that Caan told him to go and say hello to the gangster and his daughter - only he was not with his daughter, he was with a woman he saw.

"Your daughter is beautiful, junior. You must be very proud," said Russo told him.

It led to Russo almost being beaten, according to his story. "This son of an [explanive] Caan had installed me, knowing that the woman was not the daughter of Junior," he wrote. “I’m getting brought up. If that was the idea of ​​Caan with a joke, I did not laugh, and if I was going to kick my [explanive], I was going to do the same for Caan - after I got out of the hospital. ""

In a story of March 2022 on the 50th anniversary ofThe GodfatherbyThe Hollywood Reporter,,Caan approached Russo's complaint That he was actually beating it.

"He fought with someone else. Not me," said Caan. "I made the combat scene with stuntmanPaul Baxley. He entered and we invented the whole fight. And all you've seen there is something Paul and I have created the day before. ""AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

In an interview in March 2022 with theNew York Post, Caan said there was part of the combat sceneIt was improvised.

"The stick that I threw on [Carlo] when he fled, it was not in the script," said Caan. "I took one of these industrial brooms and cut the end and put it under my seat [in the car while Sonny goes up to face Carlo]. They said:" It is not In the script "and I said:" What is [explanive] is the difference, simply put it there. I swear to God that I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but I knew that many guys were doing in my neighborhood. We called them "attitude adds." ""

He continued: "I just caught him and I pulled [the stick] on him and [the director]Francis [Ford Coppola] said: "It's great, Jimmy, you seem to miss it." So he is lying behind the cars on the other side and fortunately, on the rise, I caught it at the top of the coconut. ""

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Caan and Russo had their different opinions on what happened during the stage, but there is one aspect that everyone can agree was wrong. At one point,Caan is punching on Russo This is missing his face with such a broad margin, it cannot go unnoticed by the spectator. Of course, Caan was not supposed to hit his co-star, but that does not seem real.

"This one is missing when he throws me this punch and I react ... Everyone knows that [the punch is actually] about six inches from me," said RussoPeople andWeekly entertainment Network. "I askedFrancis Ford Coppola On the occasion of the 25th anniversary, "why didn't you resolve this?" Because we had cameras on the roof, cameras everywhere. We had all the angles they needed to repair it, but they couldn't touch him. Once you have won an Oscar, you can't touch this negative. ""