Casting 2 Con Francis Ford Coppula- [verified]

According to multiple production memos and a 1991 interview with casting director Fred Roos (republished in The Annotated Godfather ), the most famous “con” happened not in a boardroom, but on a sticky August afternoon at a makeshift casting venue on Mulberry Street.

If Brando was war, Al Pacino was a siege. Casting 2 Con Francis Ford Coppula-

, Coppola famously made the choice to cast "canceled" or politically diverse actors—such as Shia LaBeouf Jon Voight Dustin Hoffman According to multiple production memos and a 1991