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[post_page_title]Against all odds casting[/post_page_title]
Scarface has an almost entirely male cast – all of the main characters are men, except for two – Tony’s sister Gina and his girlfriend Elvira. Two virtually unknown actresses were selected to play the two roles: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michelle Pfeiffer, respectively. Pacino was against casting Pfeiffer but was overruled, and it turned into her breakthrough role. Her character suffered from substance abuse, and was extremely thin to the point that she was starving by the end of the movie. Pfeiffer revealed that to make Elvira’s self-inflicted starvation palpable, “I was living on tomato soup and cigarettes.”