John Turturro could pick your pocket (if he wanted to)
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Republican redistricting efforts may fall short as voters shift away from the president and his party. These new lines were drawn based on Trump's 224 base. Key components of that base have Sour it on him. This week, voters decide the future of America. The Sunday story from the Up First Podcast. Listen now on the NPR app. This is fresh air. I am Terry Gross. My guest John Tutoro stars in a new movie that I'll tell you about in a minute.
He's been riveting ever since the early years of his career, like in the film Five Corners, in which his character is totally unhinged and through his mother out the window. And in the Cohen Brothers film Miller's Crossing, as a bookie who's skimmed money from a gangster and is begging for his life as he's about to be executed in the woods. He was also in the Cohen Brothers films Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, and O Brother Where Art Thou He was convincing as a racist in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, and was also in Lee's films Jungle Fever, Mo Better Blues, and Clockers. Skipping ahead to the recent past,
He's given great performances in the HBO series The Night Of and the Plot Against America. and he's in the Apple TV series Severance. Now he stars in the new film The Only Living Pick Pocket in New York. He loves playing people who are morally complex, neither all good nor all bad. And his character in Pickpocket is a great example.
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