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John Turturro turned down ‘The Penguin’ due to the ‘violence towards women’: ‘That’s not my thing’

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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.

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