Al Pacino is a legend, and already had been for 20 years by the point “Scent of a Girl” got here alongside. The person was Michael Corleone, for goodness sake. (Though, given he first obtained the half when he was a younger unknown himself, even that was contact and go for awhile.) He is an icon and a hero in Hollywood, to the purpose the place even Keanu Reeves took a multi-million greenback pay lower only for the possibility to work with him. Clearly, getting the second lead in a Pacino headliner was a dream job for each younger actor engaged on “Faculty Ties.” Naturally, principally everybody within the movie learn for “Scent of a Girl,” and as Robert Mandel famous, it led to some friction on the set. Because the director informed Yahoo! in a September 2022 interview:

“I did sense a sure friction as a result of all of them knew they have been up for it. I feel they knew who the finalists have been and I feel there was some friction. I bear in mind they did have to go away the set and are available again and we did not discuss it loads, however I might sense one thing was taking place there. And I am positive they have been all testing with Pacino, in order that was a giant, large deal for them.”

The function in query finally went to Chris O’Donnell, primarily anointing him the following large Hollywood star. After all, to a point, you nearly need to surprise if a few of the different actors within the forged really feel like they may have dodged a bullet by not being launched into the showbiz stratosphere so shortly. In any case, O’Donnell could have had the early success, however at the least none of the remainder of the “Faculty Ties” forged ever needed to put on Bat-nipples.