‘So what if Akshay Kumar reads his lines off a board?’ Nana Patekar defends his Welcome co-star, compares his tricks to Marlon Brando

To justify his statement, Nana cited the example of Hollywood veteran Marlon Brando. He said, “In the film Last Tango in Paris, Marlon Brando was shooting for an intimate scene, for which he couldn’t remember his lines. What he did was, he wrote his lines on the back of his co-star and read it aloud. Today, it is regarded as one of the best scenes of all time People say, ‘What chemistry he had, the way he was looking into his co-star’s eyes…’ In reality, he was only reading. It’s all about ones style and preference.”

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Currently, Akshay Kumar is shooting for the third installment of Welcome sans Nana. The film will feature Disha Patani, Raveena Tandon, Sanjay Dutt, Jacqueline Fernandez, Suniel Shetty, Anil Kapoor, Lara Dutta, Paresh Rawal, Johny Level, Arshad Warsi, Shreyas Talpade, Tusshar Kapoor, Rahul Dev, and Rajpal Yadav, among others.

Previously, he spoke to SCREEN about not being a part of the third film. He said, “I am not a part of it, maybe they think hum bohot puraane ho gaye hai (I have become dated).”