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For decades, the line, “Cause she’s got a GREAT ASS,” shouted by Al Pacino in Michael Mann’s crime classic “Heat” has entertained, but also befuddled viewers. Most have chalked it up to Pacino’s lively performance style or the fact that his character is trying to mess with Hank Azaria’s, but in Pacino’s recently published memoir, “Sonny Boy,” he shared that the real reason LAPD Lieutenant Vincent Hanna is so hyped up throughout the film is because he built his whole character around doing cocaine.

“A lot of people didn’t know that,” Pacino said in a recent interview on the “WTF Podcast with Marc Maron” in which he discussed the memoir. “It took me 20 years before I could say anything about it.”

Though he was playing a character inspired by a real guy, Pacino developed his own version, making Hanna a recreational cocaine user and incorporating that element into different scenes. However, Mann ended up cutting that detail from the final film.

“I don’t think I think there was a reason he had to doing it,” said Pacino. “This is a wired character I’m playing anyway. But he did chip cocaine, not the real guy [it was based on], that I don’t know, but the character I composed.”

Pacino explained that this wasn’t just a feature of his character, but a subplot he felt was important to understanding all of Hanna’s quirks.

“There’s a scene in the film when I’m going into the club where you actually see me do it. Took it out,” Pacino said to Maron. “And he had his reasons, I’m sure.”