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John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an Italian-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor, writer and filmmaker, known for his association with the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee. He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film Five Corners (1987). Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990) and Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in Quiz Show (1994), Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete Hogwallop in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series and is set to play Carmine Falcone in The Batman. In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries The Night Of and had a recurring role in the miniseries The Plot Against America in 2020. An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards. He directed Mac (1992), which won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Illuminata (1998), and Romance and Cigarettes (2005). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Turturro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
John Turturro
Jimmy Kirisis
for Jimmy Kirisis in Dead Man’s Wire (1996)
Suggested by dylanbower
The coen brothers would do a great job with this. a down on his luck guy who blames everyone for his failures, and cooks up a scheme to blackmail the bank to get the money he thinks they owe him. -the weapon of choice is bizarre, and it seems genius in idea but is very impractical in action. -how Tony was essentially parading Richard hall around town as everyone had to stand around and watch. Could amplify it by having them do mundane activities at mundane places they go to and have crowd chatter about mundane stuff. Plus I would make it an unorthodox buddy movie where the dialogue between hall and Kirisus makes it. And the core idea is “is it really a hostage situation if everyone is calm about it?” -the anticlimactic ending where after all the buildup, Hall is freed and Kirisis is arrested. Kirisis also thinks he won but he didn’t. Also look at the coin scene in no country for old men. They could have the same level of tension where the gun can go off anytime, but still have the kind of awkward conversations.
