Like many celebrity couples, Diane Keaton and Al Pacino met on set — the set of 1972's The Godfather, to be exact. Both relatively unknown at the time, the pair's on-screen chemistry blossomed behind the scenes, too. As she told People, Keaton was "mad" for Pacino from the start. "Charming, hilarious, a non-stop talker. There was an aspect of him that was like a lost orphan, like this kind of crazy idiot savant. And oh, gorgeous!"
Yet, while Pacino's been known to gush about Keaton to this day — when Keaton received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, the actor reminisced about their time together and ended his speech with "I love you forever" — the couple called it quits when he wouldn't commit to marriage. Keaton had given the actor an ultimatum that sparked their split. "I worked hard on that one," Keaton admitted. "I went about it in not a perfect way." But, as she told People, never getting married wasn't "the worst tragedy."
"... [H]e was even less inclined to be realistic than me," she said." And I was on the cusp of being very old. So that poor guy. I don't think he was really that interested." She added: "And I don't think a long-term happy marriage would be easy for him." Pacino never married either, but both parties of this former power couple went on to become parents, as he welcomed three biological children and Keaton adopted two kids after 50.
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