Al Pacino Reveals He Was Once Nearly Kidnapped by a Fan

Al Pacino made a swift exist after encountering a fan who was out of order.

In his new memoir Sonny Boy, the 84-year-old recalled a wild night after grabbing drinks with fellow actor Gene Hackman’s brother Richard Hackman during a “cross-country” journey. And it resulted in him the ill-advised decision to accept a ride from a stranger. 

“A woman said to me, ‘Oh, I’ll drive you home.’ And without a second thought, I got into her car with her,” he wrote in the book, per People. “But as we drove, even in my daze, I could recognize that she was not taking me back to where I was staying.”  

And as he remembered, she didn’t hold back on sharing her plan when he asked her what she was doing. “I said to her, ‘What is going on here?’” the Oscar winner continued. “And she said straight out, ‘I’m kidnapping you.’”