John Turturro turned down The Penguin due to the violence towards women: Thats not my thing

He’s not having it. John Turturro, who was in the 2022 movie “The Batman,” said that he opted out of reprising his role in the HBO spinoff series, “The Penguin.” “I did what I wanted to with the role,” Turtorro, 67, told Variety. “In the show, there was a lot of violence towards women, and that’s not my thing,” he added. Mark Strong will play the mafia don in the show. In the 2022 movie, Robert Pattinson starred as Batman while Colin Farrell played Oz Cobb, aka The Penguin, and Turtorro played crime boss Carmine Falcone. “It happens off-screen,” Turturro said, referring to Falcon’s violence in the movie.“It’s scarier that way.”Airing Sundays (9 p.m.) on HBO and Max, “The Penguin” is a spinoff of “The Batman,” following Oz (Farrell) as he schemes and double crosses people to ascend in Gotham’s criminal underworld.

There’s also a powerful woman crime lord character in the show, Carmine’s daughter Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti). Farrell is unrecognizable onscreen, as his appearance is buried under prosthetics to make Oz appear older, heavier, and balding. “It was such a liberating experience, to be so submerged beneath all that stuff.I felt like I had full permission to just throw paint at the wall,” Farrell told the Post in September. He added, “But, it was weird to look in the mirror for the first time, and see that looking back.”  As much as Farrell praised the makeup, he also admitted that it got “old by the end of the day.”He continued, “At a certain point in the shoot, I remembered reading something about Jim Carrey losing his s – – t on ‘The Grinch.’ So, I remember looking up Jim Carrey ‘The Grinch’ interviews, and seeing his quotes, just because it was beginning to get to me, a little bit.”The Oscar-nominated “Banshees of Inisherin” star joked, “I remember just almost needing a support group, but knowing it was a cottage industry.” Turturro said that he also isn’t ...