Al Pacino is weighing in on what happens after you die.
The 84-year-old screen legend revealed on The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast that he lost his pulse during a near-death experience with COVID-19 amid the 2020 pandemic.
His infection led to dehydration, he said, explaining: “my pulse was gone. It was so — you’re here, you’re not. I thought: Wow, you don’t even have your memories. You have nothing. Strange porridge.”
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“What happened was, I felt not good — unusually not good. Then I had a fever, and I was getting dehydrated and all that. So I got someone to get me a nurse to hydrate me. I was sitting there in my house, and I was gone. Like that. I didn’t have a pulse,” he revealed.
“In a matter of minutes they were there — the ambulance in front of my house,” he continued.
“I had about six paramedics in that living room, and there were two doctors, and they had these outfits on that looked like they were from outer space or something. It was kind of shocking to open your eyes and see that. Everybody was around me, and they said: ‘He’s back. He’s here.’”
When asked about “metaphysical ripples,” he said: “I didn’t see the white light or anything. There’s nothing there. As Hamlet says, ‘To be or not to be’; ‘The undiscovered country from whose bourn, no traveler returns.’ And he says two words: ‘no more.’ It was no more. You’re gone. I’d never thought about it in my life. But you know actors: It sounds good to say I died once. What is it when there’s no more?”
Al Pacino also reflected on his career during a recent appearance, spilling some major details about his biggest movies and one blockbuster that he could have starred in.
