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‘The Shallow Tale’ Director on Casting Steve Buscemi as a Serial Killer — Who Is Also a Marriage Counselor — in Tribeca Dark Comedy (EXCLUSIVE)
Tolga Karaçelik talks about directing Steve Buscemi as a serial killer who is also a marriage counselor in Tribeca-bound ‘The Shallow Tale.'
Turkish director Tolga Karaçelic, who made a splash in the U.S. with absurdist comedy “Butterflies,” is getting ready to premiere his first English-language film, “The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer,” in which the offbeat serial killer in question is played by Steve Buscemi. Karaçelic, who got a law degree in Turkey before moving to New York to study film, debuted as director in 2010 with the well-received “Toll Booth,” about a Turkish toll-station worker with a vivid imagination. Later, after I won the [2018] Sundance grand jury award with “Butterflies,” I realized that I was potentially inclined to take these things seriously, which bothered me a lot.
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