Out promoting his role in Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” and talking about the relatively recent loss of his brother, actor John Turturro spoke with about one recent role he turned down. Specifically it was reprising a role he already played – that of crime lord Carmine Falcone in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” film – for the currently airing HBO spin-off series “The Penguin”. Falcone famously dies at the end of the movie.
That passing of the underworld’s kingpin kicks off events of the TV series as various people – including Colin Farrell’s Oz, jostle for power. However, Carmine appears in flashbacks and Turturro reveals he was offered the part but turned it down: “I did what I wanted to with the role. In the show, there was a lot of violence towards women, and that’s not my thing.
” Mark Strong took on the role instead for the scenes that show Carmine being more visibly cruel as opposed to the film which simply implied it. That appealed to Turturro who says: “It happens off-screen. It’s scarier that way.
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