John Turturro Says He Didn't Return For 'The Penguin' For The Most Hypocritical of Reasons

ICYMI: John Turturro played Carmine Falcone in 'THE BATMAN' but did not return for the spinoff show 'THE PENGUIN' which is currently airing on Max. 

Quick disclaimer I put quotes around "violence against women" in the blog title for a simple reason: It's acting. It's not real. Help them out, Jonathan.

There are two things I don't understand about this sentiment from Turturro, who is an actor I really like and have interviewed before. 

The first is that this is that this is all make-believe. This isn't a documentary crew that sits there watching you actually attack women. It's FAKE! On top of that, the series is pretty clear in it's anti violence on women stance. If you watched the second to last episode (no spoilers), that should be very clear. 

The second is that why did this sentiment pop up between filming the movie and getting the scripts for the show? In 'The Batman' there is a pretty critical scene that features Turturro's character, Carmine Falcone, strangling his daughter to near-death with his cane. In the tiers of bad violence against women, that feels pretty high up on the scale to be honest! 

Everything about it is just strange to me. People commit crimes and immoral and bad acts in entertainment, especially villains. And we, as an audience, hate and despise those characters for it. Nobody is rooting for Carmine! Nobody is watching this and thinking "damn, I wanna act like him". He's a bad guy! 

This is also the same guy that played a pedophile in 'The Big Lebowski', a Palestinian militant in 'You Don't Mess With The Zohan' and plenty of other villains so I just don't know where this stance, which feels like moral high-ground grandstanding, came from. Still love his stuff, I just don't get this. 

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