A star was absent from a role in the eyes of Stanley Kubrick on a large scale

For a large part of the “Severance” team, the show is the culmination of years and years of hard work in Hollywood trenches, where it was delivered in the screening or movie after the other until “Sevency” came to finally give them a great break. But for John Tortoro, who plays the role of an MDR employee in MDR IRVing B., “Severance” is just another credit in a long and arduous career.

He got the first role of his movie as an additional non -speaking in “Bull Raging Bull” for Martin Scorsese, and since then, TURTURO has worked with some of the greatest other other directors in his generation. From his work with William Friedkin at “To Live and Die In La” and Robert Redford at “Show Quiz Show”, to his long -term cooperation with high -class atturses like Spike Lee (in which he appeared in nine films) and Coen Brothers, but also events have built Turturo from This type of profession that you cannot dream about.

Of course, this does not mean that it is without regret, because it is in an interview with Happy sad with Josh HorowitzTURTURRO looked at his career and talked about how he hopes to work with managers such as Francis Ford Coppola and Centeen Tarantino. But the director who feels the deepest regret about him is nothing but Stanley Cubrick, which Tortoro says he described in the period before being the final film of the director, “Closing the eyes on a large scale”, for a two -hour conversation, Kubrick was extending to Tortoro. 1997 The movie “The armistice”).

This phone call was supposed to end with the TURTURRO photography in “Eyes Wide Shot” … if only TURTURRO had taken signals sooner.

It turned out that Cubic has written a special role for TURTURRO in his upcoming movie, “Eyes Wide Shot”. Cubrick had imagined Tortoro by the piano player Nick Knightgel, who absorbed Dr. Harford from Tom Cruise in a world of mysterious sexual rituals, and presented him over the phone, but Tuturo explained how a little explanation led to his loss in the role:

“I said,” I will read it and we will work on it. “I was talking to him like an ordinary person. I said,” Well, FEDEX.

Kubrick found that this story is “incredible”, which TURTURRO answered, “Well, do you know your Fedex man?” He explains that he was only trying to act as an ordinary person while speaking to a man who respects his work a lot, but his extraordinary behavior gave the appearance that he was not interested in the part:

The next day, I heard that I was not available. I was not available because I did not tell him, as you know, “regardless of that (I will be there). “I didn’t know that at that time …”

Only from the tone of his voice, you can hear that TURTURRO really regrets that he does not realize that Kubrick expects all his representatives to put all other projects in second place, although he admits a little known curiosity to see if he will “remain alive” Making exhausted filmmakers To new extremism. Production has proven for 15 months that it is too much Harvey Kitel, which was replaced by Sydney Pollack.

Did Tortoro survive, or was he replaced by Todd Field, director “Tar” who finally got the part? We will never know, but at least, the film has grown over the past twenty years, with Cubic’s final masterpiece It is scheduled to be recruited in the set of standards later this year.