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He is starring in "Hunters", a new show for
Amazon Prime that is due to be released on Friday.
The series, about a band of Nazi hunters in New York in the
1970s, is inspired by a true story - a "love letter" to the show
creator's late grandmother who survived Holocaust.
"I never did this sort of long 10 episodes. So it's like doing
like, I think, about a 12-hour film because it is about 12 hours
of film," Pacino, who turns 80 in April, told Reuters.
"This is a crazy story, too, by the way ... Crazy horror, really
scary stuff. And also heavy, deep, tragic emotion ... it runs
the gamut," said Pacino, who was nominated for Best Supporting
Actor at this month's Academy Awards for his role in "The
Irishman".
Show creator David Weil said he wanted to tell his grandmother's
story, the experiences during the war that she had told him
about as a child.
"At such a young age, they felt like the stuff of comic books
and superheroes," he said.
"The onus is now on us, on the next generation, to continue
their story and further their story. And so 'Hunters' is really
a love letter to her.
"It's this desire to propel her story forward into this next
generation and to educate people on what the Holocaust is and
what people went through so that we can try and prevent this
from ever happening again."
(Editing by Alison Williams)
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