John Turturro - Actor

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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EPISODE 149 - JOHN TURTURRO - Actor

Team Deakins enjoys a great conversation with frequent collaborator, actor John Turturro (BARTON FINK, THE BIG LEBOWSKI, TRANSFORMERS). His stories made us laugh a lot in parts - especially when he describes his first professional audition with Michael Badalucco for DiNiro and Scorsese for the movie Raging Bull! He also shares what working with the great Robbie Muller taught him (“you don’t have to do more”) as well as his experience of working with Francesco Rosi and Pasqualino De Santis on The Truce, where he realized he was a part of the frame. We also talked a lot about his experiences working with the Coen Brothers including what his real-life inspiration was for his character in Miller’s Crossing and how he prepped for Barton Fink. He explains that while professional acting is great, once in a while, it’s good to get back to the responsible amateur in you! We cover lots of ground and it’s an episode not to miss!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:09.8	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:16.3	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear
0:21.4	the audio.
0:23.5	If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod.cod at RogerDeakin's.com.
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0:59.4	Today we're speaking with an actor and director. His credits are far too many to list and include
1:07.7	Do the Right Thing, Barton Fink, O'Brother We're Out Thou and Quiz Show. We're pleased to welcome
1:14.6	John Totoro with us today. John, thank you for doing this.
1:18.6	For having me. It's nice to see you both of you.
1:22.6	We'd like to see you.
1:25.6	That's as close as we get these days. But we'd like to start with a question. How did you
1:30.2	get to where you are today? What was your path? Did you take another path or was this something
1:34.4	you always knew you wanted to do? Tell us your story.
1:39.1	I was a movie lover when I was a little kid. My parents were my mom's family were musicians.
1:48.8	Jazz musicians. My mom was a singer, but she didn't want to kind of stay in that world.
1:56.7	She kind of dropped out of that world because it was a little too, I guess, risky for her.
2:06.6	But I guess as a kid I used to watch a lot of old movies with my parents because they
2:13.6	were only so many channels. There was a thing in New York called the Million Dollar Movie
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