Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain took to the stage at London’s BFI Southbank following a special screening of Salome, a new film of the pair’s 2006 L.A. stage performance of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated play, and Wild Salome, Pacino’s 2011 documentary chronicling his obsession with the play, Wilde and the difficulties of putting it together. Pacino spoke about his love for the U.K. capital, where he first saw the play Salome by Stephen Berkoff and a famed occasion while performing on the London stage.
“I came to London to work on the West End, you created theater here,” Pacino said. “We had a few nights of previews and are playing this show. We’re in the middle of it, first act and some woman sails down the aisle to the front and has a cigarette. She looks up at me and says: ‘got a light’?”