The Method acting legend's penchant for pranks on the set of The Godfather has become the stuff of legend, and James Caan recalls how, during the funeral scene, he nearly got a hernia lifting the Don's coffin; he later found out that Brando had filled the coffin with weights to make three times as heavy.
Caan must be losing it. Sonny was dead long before Vito's funeral. Brando pulled his weights prank on the hospital bed that carried him upstairs after he returned from the hospital.
