carrybuh — 1 year ago(October 26, 2024 10:38 AM)

He played mob boss Carmine Falcone in "The Batman" but is replaced with Mark Strong in "The Penguin."
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/john-turturro-pedro-almodovar-the-room-next-door-turning-down-the-penguin-severance-season-2-1236187588/
Turturro won’t reprise his role as Carmine Falcone for spinoff series “The Penguin.” Instead Mark Strong will take on the Mafia don that Turturro played in “The Batman.” “I did what I wanted to with the role,” he says. “In the show, there was a lot of violence towards women, and that’s not my thing.”
Falcone radiated brutality in “The Batman,” but in the 2022 movie, his cruelty is implied rather than illustrated. “It happens off-screen,” Turturro says. “It’s scarier that way.”
Turning down a return to Gotham was also partly the reality of there being more opportunities than time. “You can’t do everything you want to,” he admits.