Listeners of The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott had been handled to an sudden story about Stanley Kubrick, courtesy of podcast visitor Turturro.
Within the podcast’s Jan. 15 episode, throughout which Stiller, Scott, and Turturro mentioned Severance Season 1, episode 8, “What’s for Dinner?,” Turturro talked about that the collection had a “Kubrickian approach” to it.
He added: “I never worked with Kubrick. I almost worked with Kubrick, but I didn’t say the right thing to Stanley.”
Seems, Kubrick wrote the a part of Nick Nightingale, which later went to Todd Area (Tár), for Turturro.
Turturro recalled that in his and Kubrick’s two-hour dialog concerning the movie, Kubrick stated he thought Turturro was a “really wonderful actor.”
“I was embarrassed, and I said, ‘Thank you,’ and he said, ‘Well, you are,'” Turturro stated. And I stated, ‘Nicely, I am unable to stroll round my home telling my spouse that I am a beautiful actor, as a result of she’ll hit me with a frying pan.'”
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The most effective (and silliest) a part of the story comes when Kubrick asks Turturro the way to ship him the script. “I said, ‘You could FedEx it to me,’ and he said, ‘What if you’re not home?'” Turturro recalled. “I said, ‘My FedEx man throws it over my gate. I know him, his name is Ray.’ And he said, ‘That’s unbelievable. Mine doesn’t do that.’
“I stated, ‘Nicely, do you speak to your FedEx man?'” Turturro continued. “He stated, ‘No, I do not know his identify.'”
FedEx speak apart, Kubrick ended up passing on Turturro, as he apprehensive that he might need different initiatives or conflicts over the following not one however two years. (Taking up 15 months to movie, Eyes Extensive Shut at present holds the Guinness World Document for longest steady movie shoot.)
“I would have been replaced, probably,” Turturro informed Stiller and Scott. “A lot of people were replaced. But I wanted to see what that experience of the 100-take thing was.”
He closed out the story by bringing it again to Severance, saying, “So when I was on this show, that kept coming into my brain. I never really told you, but I was thinking, ‘You know what? This is better anyway. I’m better off being here.'”
“The one decision that I ever made that could compare favorably to Stanley Kubrick is that I hired you,” Stiller joked.
Severance Season 2 premieres Jan. 17 on Apple TV+, with a brand new episode each week.
