By now, John Turturro is used to being recognized as Jesus Quintana, the flamboyant, purple-polyester-clad competitive bowling maven who stares down Jeff Bridges’ “the Dude” at the lanes in “The Bi…
.” The chameleon-like character actor has made multiple films with the Coen brothers, Spike Lee and even Michael Bay. But when he goes out in public, people always seem to recognize him as “the Jesus.”’ with them when they go overseas into battle, there’s a reason why. Something about not growing up, and living in the moment.
As it happens, the inspiration for that memorable performance predates “The Big Lebowski.” Turturro first played a version of the character at the Public Theater. “It was a trilogy of one-acts, and the character I did was based on a person I had met through the writer, someone he knew. There was something kind of disarming about the guy. He had a very gentle voice, a high voice.”and his wife Frances McDormand had come to see Turturro’s show.
“I was only going to take certain parts of the book that I liked,” says Turturro, who did a draft and held a reading, but something about it didn’t work. “Then I started thinking about this character that I had originated on stage. He’s like a very deep classic underachiever who maybe never grew up, and I did a reading of the script as that guy, which seemed to work.”
“I bowl and I dance in the movie. I figured I had to kind of acknowledge those kinds of things,” Turturro explains. “It’s funny, in the book, they do go bowling, and in Blier’s original movie, they go bowling, too. It’s a weird connection, but all of these things are that way.”
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