Last evening’s episode of Succession featured a breakneck, nerve-racking presidential race to 270 electoral votes that threatened to upend my delicate cocktail of Lexapro and weed—nevertheless it wasn’t that ballot that had Twitter shook. No, it was a completely totally different one which requested who’s hotter: younger Al Pacino or younger Robert DeNiro?
The query, first poised on May 13 by author Ashley Reese who wished to settle an argument she was having at a marriage, is straightforward: Take two Italian-American Hollywood legends, at their prime hotness, within the throes of youth, and pit them towards one another. A hearth of discourse unfold all through Twitter from the second she dropped the ballot, with individuals posting footage of the 2 younger studs within the feedback to assist their arguments and others quote-tweeting her to recommend, blasphemously, that neither one was sizzling (a lie). Even TMZ and Vanity Fair weighed in.
Young Pacino vs Young DeNiro: Who’s hotter?
“I honestly don’t even remember how this came up at the wedding. I was at a wedding for one of my late husband’s law school classmates and I was at the dinner table with all the law school friends, just goofing off. I don’t know WHAT prompted this debate but I’m sure I started the poll over who was hotter: Young Pacino or young DeNiro,” Reese, who’s “very vocally Team Pacino” advised Kotaku by way of Twitter DM. “The table was basically split, even after doing a lot of google image searching…so I decided to make a Twitter poll to get an idea of what The People outside of this wedding party believe.”
But because the ballot creeped nearer to its completion, it turned clear that this could grow to be a kind of touchstone web moments that you simply wrestle to clarify to your Boomer mother and father. Not solely had Reese (inadvertently, she tells Kotaku) set the ballot to finish throughout the presidential election episode of Succession, nevertheless it was mirroring the occasions of the episode itself, which noticed fictitious presidential hopefuls Jeryd Mencken (Justin Kirk) and Daniel Jiménez (Elliot Villar) locked in a tie for a portion of the evening.
“I didn’t even realize it was going to cut into succession until a friend pointed it out. Fitting that it was also an election episode. To my embarrassment, I was maybe a little more focused on the poll than the episode until the poll was over about 20 min into the episode,” Reese admits.
As the evening went on, the margin between DeNiro and Pacino was both nonexistent, or so small it was sending individuals right into a frenzy, with Reese herself demanding that the Pacino TikTookay girlies leap into the fray to try to even the rating.
I personally voted for Robert DeNiro, with the psychological pictures of him tattooed and terrifying in Cape Fear and smoking a bowl in Jackie Brown swaying my resolution. Though, as many individuals identified, Pacino in The Godfather is a reasonably good piece of torta, ya know what I imply?
The Pacino/DeNiro polls closed earlier than the Succession episode polls closed, and though the latter’s ended on a controversial resolution (ultra-right Republican Menken gained after tons of of hundreds of probably liberal ballots had been burned in an assault on a polling heart), the previous resulted in a tie. Yes, a tie. 50/50 DeNiro/Pacino cut up. But similar to the present it unintentionally mirrored, the outcomes weren’t really 100% dependable: Reese tweeted a picture showing DeNiro narrowly edging out Pacino (50.1% to 49.9%), whereas different Twitter customers (myself included), at present see a 50/50 tie.
“On the browser version of Twitter you can see a more accurate breakdown of the numbers and after Pacino had a good lead, the DeNiro heads caught up. I think the final result was a .2% difference,” Reese says.
If you didn’t get an opportunity to vote within the ballot, otherwise you did and wish reassurance that you simply made the proper resolution, we’ve gathered some pictures of younger DeNiro and younger Pacino in a slideshow for you. Just click on via and see the place you stand on the younger Italian-American actor hotness debate. I wish to level out that I’ve managed to not make a spicy sausage joke this whole time. You’re welcome.
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