Al Pacino Left With A Stoop After Playing Phil Spector

Hollywood legend __Al Pacino was left with a stoop after spending months hunched over to play incarcerated music mogul Phil Spector in a new Tv movie.

The Godfather star went to great lengths to adopt the shamed producer's physical mannerisms to play the title role in Phil Spector, a Tv film for _American network HBO_.

Pacino admits he spent so long walking with a stoop, he struggled to stand up straight again after filming came to an end.

He tells the New York Post, "This role was tough for me. I sweated through it. I worked so hard to get his stooped walk that I had trouble learning how to walk straight up afterward."

_I_n Phil Spector, Pacino stars opposite Dame Helen Mirren, who plays the music star's attorney Linda Kenney Baden during his first trial in 2007.

A subsequent retrial ended with Spector being found guilty of murdering actress Lana Clarkson at his home in _A_lhambra, California in 2003. He was sentenced to 19 years to life behind bars.