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John Turturro On His Role In Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ and His Own Directing Career
John Turturro talks about his role in Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming English-language feature and his own directing career.
John Turturro, one of this year’s recipients of an honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award for career achievement took time between his sold-out masterclass and presenting an open-air screening of “Barton Fink” to visit the Variety Lounge, presented by the Sarajevo Film Festival and BH Telecom. Turturro, who acted in two of the fall film festival’s most hotly anticipated titles, discussed playing the ex-boyfriend of Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar ’s upcoming English-language feature, “The Room Next Door.” He will be going to Toronto to support that film and Sean Ellis’s “The Cut.” As a writer-director, Turturro noted that his experience of acting with other filmmakers naturally influenced his approach behind the camera.
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