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Scarface Bonus feature
Brian De Palma: " But it was a long ardous casting process. Steven was somebody that we saw
right in the beginning and liked right in the beginning."
Steven Bauer: "Yeah, I was born in Cuba in 56. Actually I was born the day that Fidel Castro
arrived from Mexico, you know ready to start the revolution. My dad, ah at a certain point
decided that things were not gong to get any better so he gathered us together, and he took
us to the airport, my littlebrother, myself and my mom. This is 1960. They got off the ground and
once they were in airspace... in the international airspace he said I'm not going back. I'm out.
I'm gone. So he arrived in Miami, he had a dime in his pocket. We lived from house to house,
different people's houses for the first few months. And, ah, did the whole exile experience.
Over the years I grew up to be an American. That's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be like the
kids in my school who didn't have spanish surnames. Got through highschool. Went to Europe.
Saw Europe and came home and I said I gotta do something. I went to junior college just to kinda
kill time and then I walked into an audition for a play. For a Tenessee Williams play. And I got cast.
And once I was in the process, the rehersal process, I said this is it. This is what I do. I was living in
Manhatan and studying with Stella Adler and going through that whole ah, journey of ah, the starving
actor and I got a call about an interview and this woman... she's casting this film, it's called "Scarface",
it's starring Al Pacino and the second role is his, his buddy. So I go and she says oh my god they're
right, you're perfect. I have to call Brian. She gets on the phone to call Brian, and ah, Brian say's send
him over. So I go meet Brian. And he says, ok um... all right, so you speak Spanish right? Yeah. You're
Cuban, you're really Cuban? Yeah, I'm Cuban. He go calls Marty Bregman. Ok I'm calling the producer.
He calls Bregman. He goes yeah he's right, he's perfect. So I went back to LA and I met Marty Bregman.
Bregman from day one says to me in his voice you know, he says kid you're going to do this moive.
You're going to play Manny. You can't get the part yet because their are a lot of variables, a lot of things.
But hang on to this thought. Learn this. Be it. And be ready when the time comes step in. You're going
to do it.
Marty Bregman: Steven Bauer was chosen to play the second male lead in this after he he
had read for us. His background certainly didn't indicate that he could stand up on screen next
to Al, because most of his scenes were with Pacino and if you look at any of Pacino's
work, it's very difficult to watch any other actor if he's on the screen. And Steven in a
reading convinced us very quickly that he was the right, he was the right person for this.
Steven Bauer: Eventually, ah they said okay, you're going to met Al. He was in Brian's
office and, ah I went over there, and it was love at first sight. It was great. I walked in and
he was there and he's, you know, he's just like a kid, you know, and we hit it off like
immediately, immediately. It was a done deal. It was like we were ready to start to be
those guys.
Al Pacino: "Steven and I became very close friends. And ah, we spent ah, much, much
time together and, just going over our relationship and what it was in the past and we
enjoyed it. We had fun doing that. Making a kind of a sceniro, making up a story and that
was alot of the work we did together.
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