Al Pacino’s Vincent Hanna is certainly animated during the events of Heat, some of that could be attributed to the stress of trying to apprehend Robert De Niro’s Neil McCauley and his crew, as well as his… unique personality. However, years back, it was revealed that the reason Pacino’s acting is so over the top in Michael Mann’s 1995 movie is because he played Hanna as a cokehead. Now Mann has shared that Heat nearly included a wild scene of Pacino’s character snorting cocaine off an unusual surface.
Despite it never being explicitly stated in Heat that Vincent Hanna indulges in this vice, while being interviewed by Variety, Mann mentioned that a scene was shot where the LAPD detective was snorting coke off the back of a dagger he carried in the small of his back. The filmmaker decided to cut this scene because he thought it was “too strong a message.” Still, at least now Heat fans have an even better idea of how intense Hanna is with his blow addiction.
