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John Turturro could pick your pocket (if he wanted to)
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Lifting wallets and watches was part of Turturro's training for the new film, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. In it, he plays a small-time thief who's also the primary caretaker for his ailing wife. Turturro spoke with Terry Gross about growing up around volatility, helping his parents with both construction and dressmaking, and how his background helped him connect with Spike Lee. Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to our YouTube channel Check out the Fresh Air Archives See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our...
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This message comes from Glass Half Full with Craig Melvin. In this podcast, the Today Show anchor talks with cultural icons like Jalen Brunson and Shonda Rhimes about the moments that shaped them. Listen and you might get a fresh perspective.
Search Glass Half Full wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. My guest John Turturro 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 throws his mother out the window, and in the Coen 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 Coen Brothers films
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