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'I was starving': Michelle Pfeiffer lived on soup and cigarettes to play cocaine addict Elvira in Scarface

Published: 11:05 EDT, 20 April 2018 | Updated: 16:33 EDT, 20 April 2018

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Scarface was a career-making film for a young unknown actress named Michelle Pfeiffer.

And 35 years on, the actress is reflecting on playing cocaine addict housewife Elvira in the Al Pacino classic, admitting she was 'starving' while making the movie.

The then 25-year-old purposely lost weight to show her character's development during the course of the movie. But when the final scene was repeatedly delayed, she found herself existing for days on a reduced diet.

'I became thinner and thinner and more emaciated,' she explained during a panel of the film's stars at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday.

'I was starving': Michelle Pfeiffer lived on tomato soup and Marlboros to play cocaine addict Elvira in Scarface 35 years ago, she has revealed

Natural beauty: Pfeiffer, now 59, was talking on Thursday at a special celebration for the Brian De Palma gangster movie at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York

Michelle said delays meant she 'was starving by the end of it.'

She explained: 'I literally had members of the crew bringing me bagels because they were all worried about me and how thin I was getting. I think I was living on tomato soup and Marlboros.'

Saying she 'didn't know' what she weighed during filming, she added: 'I was playing a cocaine addict, so that was part of the physicality of the part which you have to consider.'

During the panel discussion, Pfeiffer explained she was very thin during filming because she was in character as a cocaine addict, adding that she was 'starving' by the end of the shoot

'I literally had members of the crew giving me bagels because they were all worried about me and how thin I was getting,' she said

Michelle was an unknown actress while Al Pacino was the 43-year-old acclaimed star of The Godfather Parts 1 and II when she landed the role in Scarface.

They reunited for a special celebration for the Brian De Palma gangster movie at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

They were joined at the reunion by De Palma and co-star Steven Bauer.

He called the shots: Scarface director Brian De Palma, third from left, joined his stars at the film festival

Pacino, now 77, wore a baggy black jacket with baggy black trousers and a black shirt.

He added a white scarf for a dapper touch.

Pfeiffer, 59, also opted for a black ensemble pairing a tailored jacket with tailored pants and a pinstripe shirt.

Bauer, 69, paired skinny black jeans with a navy shirt, black jacket and a long black patterned scarf.

Legends: It's been 35 years since Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino starred together in Scarface and on Thursday night they reunited for a special celebration at the Tribeca Film Festival

Co-star: Steven Bauer, who played Pacino's best friend in the film, joined in the celebration wearing skinny black jeans with a navy shirt, black jacket and a long black patterned scarf

Scarface, written by Oliver Stone, is set in Miami in 1980 with Pacino as a determined Cuban immigrant Tony Montana who takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.

Bauer plays his best friend Manny Ribera who escaped with him from Cuba and Pfeiffer plays Elvira, the woman he marries after he murders her husband, played by Robert Loggia.