Playing Jesus in the Big Lebowski - John Turturro

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/30/John_Turturro_at_The_New_School

Actor John Turturro describes creating the character of Jesus Quintana for Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski. He discusses the importance as an actor of having a good relationship with a film's director, explaining his performance "came out of something very...organic."

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John Turturro meets with the New School student body in a Town Hall meeting for a Q&A about his career and experiences in the entertainment industry. - The New School

John Turturro studied at the Yale School of Drama. He created the title role of John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea in his theatrical début, for which he won an Obie Award and a Theater World Award.

Since then, Turturro has returned to the stage often, in productions such as Waiting for Godot; performing the title role in Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; and in Eduardo de Filippo's Souls of Naples, for which he received a Drama Desk nomination. He recently completed Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

Mr. Turturro has also performed in more than sixty films, working with directors such as Martin Scorsese (The Color of Money), Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever), Robert Redford (Quiz Show), Peter Weir (Fearless), Tom DiCillo (Box of Moonlight), and Joel and Ethan Coen (Miller's Crossing; The Big Lebowski; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; and the lead role in Barton Fink, which won him the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the David di Donatello Award.) His current projects include Columbia Pictures The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, opposite Denzel Washington and John Travolta.

Mr. Turturro received SAG Award nominations for his television portrayals of Howard Cosell in Monday Night Mayhem and Billy Martin in ESPN's The Bronx Is Burning. He won an Emmy for his guest appearance on the hit series Monk. John Turturro has also directed three films. His directorial debut, Mac, won the Camera d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed Illuminata and the recently-released Romance & Cigarettes, starring James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, and Kate Winslet.

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[pigslammin]

13 people fucked with the jesus.

[maxeypad]

Nobody fucks with Jesus.

Or Barton Fink.

[thebestin1]

Lol you don't apply religion to the Internet. xD and to anyone that replys to them need to let it go.

[trueX5]

way to use wikepediat you tool

[TheHammerhead98]

my fingers hurt now. must have been the will of god

[TheHammerhead98]

@RagingUtai

Christiand and catholics are the most dismissive people around, they look at something they dont understand and say, it was the will of god, as a simple explanation because they are too dumb to think of anything else. Must have been gods will i ate cornflakes this morning instead of cheerios, must have been gods will that that blade of grass over there was stepped on. And you think the answers of all these new modern problems exist in a book written more than 2000 years ago byidiots

[TheHammerhead98]

@RagingUtai

did you knoe every minute an estimated 63 people are raped. did you know how many people were killed in the holocaust? did you know that there are an estimated more than 270 000 child soldiers in africa? did you know how many children are molested every year? Do you know how many people starve in north korea each year? do you know how many people live in poverty and dont have acces to clean water?

[TheHammerhead98]

@RagingUtai

Do you know how many innocent people hitler killed, most of who believed in this figment of your imagination? do you know how many people have been driven away from their homes by african warlords? did you know in china a little girl was run over twice by two separate cars and no one did anything just kept walking and driving by.

[TheHammerhead98]

@RagingUtai

Christians maintain that the universe was created by god and science is completely wrond despite every scientist in the world agreeing on this and say that the universe was created by god then who created god. you cant say he was just there because then that is the same as what normal people say how the world was created by the big bang, a theory which you say if wrong because how can the whole universe have been created by a explosion. ask yourself how god was created

[TheHammerhead98]

@RagingUtai

So every person executed and tortured by african warlords, every single person who lives in a warzone, who lives in poverty and who starves to death each year, every child soldier in africa. if this is all the will of god as well as the previous comment, you should turn around and think, why am i supporting a god that does all these horrific things.

[TheHammerhead98]

@RagingUtai

So therefore it means that god is behind every rape, every child molestation, every murder, every Jew killed by Hitler who was acting on gods orders, every innocent normal person killed by Hitler and every god believeing person killed by Hitler who were clutching on to their wooden crosses as they waited for the gas to roll into the chamber praying to the one being that had sustained their belief and had had all the answers in life to be let down.

[TheHammerhead98]

@RagingUtaiHow can you think about every single little girl raped by 50 year old paedophiles with wrinkly dicks, and say this right because it was the will of god. How can you support a god that does this. How would you feel if some rapist was shoving his dick up your ass and you didnt like it as im sure many wouldnt, and after say oh its ok it was the will of god.