By Michael Roddy VENICE (Reuters) – Al Pacino fended off suggestions on Saturday that because he plays depressed characters in two movies shown at the Venice Film Festival he must have a special affinity for such roles. The “Godfather” star, who is 74, also said that while he did not consider himself to be a Hollywood actor, he appreciated some of the big budget films coming out of there. In Barry Levinson’s “The Humbling”, based on a Philip Roth novel, Pacino plays an ageing Shakespearean actor who has lost his ability to act. In director David Gordon Green’s “Manglehorn” he is a Texas locksmith who has never gotten over the love of his life, whom he abandoned, and locked himself away from normal human contact.
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