Stanley Kubrick’s final film ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ holds the record for the longest ever shoot at 400 days. Starring the then still married Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman it had an impressive cast but what’s not widely known is how John Turturro turned down Kubrick for a role he had written for him in the film.
Turturro said, ‘Stanley Kubrick called me up for Eyes Wide Shut, and I was, like, shocked that he knew all about me,” comtinuing “And he said, ‘I think you’re a terrific actor,’ and I said, ‘Well, thank you.’ He goes, ‘Well, you are,’” ….. “I was like, ‘Well, I can’t walk around my house saying that to my wife, she’ll hit me over the head with a frying pan.’ And he said, ‘Well, I’m gonna send you a script and I hope you’ll like it.’ He goes, ‘You’ll like it.’”
Kubrick wanted to know how it would fit into the actors schedule knowing that Turturro was prepping and trying to find finance for his own film to direct.
Turturro explained, ‘“He said, ‘I wrote this part for you.’ I didn’t say to him, ‘Whatever it is, I will do.’ But I was so excited. I said, ‘I’ll read it, and we’ll work it out.’ I was talking to him like a normal person,”
Ultimately though Turturro revealed that it didn’t work out as he didn’t let Kubrick know he would make the project by any means necessary and the actor believes that Kubrick didn’t feel he was excited enough about the role and went on to say, ‘“The next day, I heard I was unavailable, because I didn’t tell him: ‘No matter what.’ That’s it, and I didn’t know that at the time, and I just tried to be a regular [person],” he concluded. “So I would have liked to have worked with him just because I’m a big fan of his and see how I would have survived doing long takes.”
So which role was it? Well it turns out that it wasNick Nightingale, the pianist that was eventually played by actor-turned-filmmaker Todd Field, whose character supplies the critical password entry to Tom Cruise’s Dr. Bill Harford and comes to a grisly demise for revealing it.
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source: deadline
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