The Curious Case of John Turturro Not Returning for The Penguin

HBO’s The Penguin has a ton of connections to Matt Reeves’ The Batman, but 1 is proving much absorbing than others. In Reeves’ film, John Turturro played transgression brag Carmine Falcone, a quality who returns successful flashbacks for The Penguin. There he’s played by Mark Strong. Showrunner Lauren LeFranc antecedently said Turturro didn’t instrumentality owed to “scheduling conflicts” but the histrion has present travel retired with different reason, 1 that LeFranc respects but we don’t deliberation rather fits.

Speaking to Variety, The Big Lebowski histrion said the crushed for not returning to the relation went beyond scheduling. “I did what I wanted with the role,” helium said. “In the show, determination was a batch of unit towards women, and that’s not my thing.”

Speaking to the Wrap, LeFranc responded, saying she was nether the content it was the scheduling but inactive respects the actor’s decision. “I wholly respect an histrion who doesn’t privation to instrumentality connected a relation for immoderate their idiosyncratic reasons,” LeFranc said. “I lone privation radical to articulation our amusement who are excited and privation to further the communicative we’re trying to tell. I deliberation Mark Strong did a truly fantastic job. He made the quality his ain and besides truly honored what John Turturro did.”

It’s existent that connected The Penguin things dive deeper into the convulsive broadside of Carmine Falcone. It’s revealed helium killed his woman arsenic good arsenic respective different women by strangulation and past framed his girl for it, sending her to situation for a decennary and turning the full household against her. However, astatine slightest done the astir caller occurrence of the show, we ne'er ticker him really beryllium convulsive towards women. In fact, he’s not adjacent connected surface that often. That’s successful opposition to the movie wherever Turturro’s mentation of the quality attempts to strangle and termination Selena Kyle, played by Zoe Kravitz, connected screen. So, clearly, Turturro was good with that, though his quality is yet killed successful the end.

“Carmine successful the movie killed Selina Kyle’s parent and past does effort to actively termination Selina, and besides kills Annika—Selina’s friend,” LeFranc said. “I deliberation it’s been established, and Matt [Reeves] and I are successful statement connected this, that Carmine’s a precise convulsive antheral and has a convulsive streak against women.”

Certainly, The Penguin is not a tame amusement and determination is unit towards women arsenic good arsenic men. In the astir caller episode, a parent and lad are burned live successful beforehand of our eyes. And, if Turturro is referring to that, it’s a just point. Plus, we don’t cognize what’s successful store implicit the adjacent fewer episodes. But you presume he’s speaking successful regards to his quality and, if that’s the case, saying Carmine Falcone is much convulsive successful The Penguin than The Batman is surely up for debate.

See for yourself. Both The Penguin and The Batman are presently streaming connected Max.

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