Vincent D'Onofrio

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week on Bullseye, it's Vincent D'Onofrio. He talks about his many memorable roles in Full Metal Jacket, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Men in Black, and Daredevil. He also talks about how an actor accesses these grand characters through physical and emotional inspirations, as well as the Kingpin costume made of material developed by NASA.

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0:00.0	Hey, Bullseye listeners, it's Jesse and it's Max Fun Drive Time.
0:04.4	Bullseye is produced by Maximum Fun, a worker-owned cooperative of audio producers, and this is the time of year when we ask you to join Maximum Fun and support the production of Bullseye.
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0:22.4	Five bucks a month or so. Go to Maximumfund.org slash join to become a member and support Bullseyes
0:29.8	production. Let's get into our conversation with Vincent Tenoffria.
0:34.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:56.0	It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:58.9	Sugar in water.
1:02.0	Two ingredients that I guess make, what?
1:06.1	Simple syrup, hummingbird food, a mess.
1:14.0	Also, though, sugar in water is a line from men in black, delivered by my guest, Vincent DeNofrio, who at the time was playing a giant cockroach space alien inhabiting the body of a man.
1:21.9	It's a moment that is bizarre, unforgettable, and iconic.
1:28.2	Edgar, what on earth was that?
1:30.3	Sugar.
1:31.8	I've never seen sugar do that.
1:35.4	Give me sugar.
1:41.8	In water.
1:45.0	Men in black is, of course, only one chapter in Vincent Donofrio's career.
1:49.0	He's a remarkably versatile, remarkably physical actor.
1:52.7	He played Gomer Pyle in full metal jacket, a role for which he gained 70 pounds.
1:57.5	For 10 years, he starred as Detective Robert Gorin on Law and Order Criminal Intent,
2:02.3	and more recently, he's been one of the stars of Daredevil. He plays King Pin, the Crime
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