Scene Stealers

John Turturro joins Scene Stealers to break down the roles he's best known for, starting with his new film The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. He talks about mentoring younger actors, gaining 35 pounds (and getting shingles) for Quiz Show, pranking Robert Redford with a Meryl Streep story, the real reason he took Rounders, how he created Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski, and how he built Emilio in Mr. Deeds from scratch, wig and all.

Go see The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, in theaters in New York and Los Angeles October 23 and nationwide October 30.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Cold Open
0:50 Welcome
1:25 THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK
1:57 Passing the torch to younger actors
6:08 "You die twice"
8:35 QUIZ SHOW
8:51 Gaining 35 pounds, shingles, and Herb Stempel's voice
11:19 Pranking Robert Redford with a Meryl Streep story
14:27 The Quiz Show premiere story
15:10 Actors as pickpockets: absorbing, not stealing
16:44 Playing Howard Cosell
18:00 ROUNDERS
18:28 Why Rounders was a poker move
22:09 Why he doesn't gamble
23:00 THE BIG LEBOWSKI
23:33 Jesus Quintana and the Coens
26:22 Soldiers, DVDs, and tattoo mail
27:45 Hitting a double, triple, or homer in a small role
28:03 Mr. Deeds and working with Adam Sandler
30:15 Outro

Scene Stealers is where we watch our favorite scenes with our favorite actors.

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Ethan Hawke joins John Feitelberg on Scene Stealers to break down some of his most memorable performances.
Ethan stars in The Lowdown, Season 2, out now on FX and Hulu!

He sits down with John to discuss the series, working with legendary filmmakers, and the craft behind some of cinema’s most unforgettable performances.

From Before Sunrise and Dead Poets Society to Training Day, Ethan shares the stories behind the scenes, what he learned from working with Robin Williams and Denzel Washington, and why imperfection is essential to great art.

Plus, Ethan breaks down the magic of improvisation and why Jack Nicholson's run in the 1970s might be the greatest decade of acting ever.

Watch The Lowdown, Season 2, now. New episodes drop Wednesdays at 9pm ET/PT on FX and 9pm PT on Hulu!

CHAPTERS
00:00 — Cold Open
00:50 — Welcome to Scene Stealers
02:14 — The Lowdown and Building a Great Character
05:18 — Why Imperfection Makes Art Better
08:21 — Working With Tommy Lee Jones
10:51 — Ethan Hawke on The Lowdown and Reservation Dogs
16:00 — Before Sunrise
18:06 — Richard Linklater's Approach to Acting
20:05 — Why the Before Trilogy Feels Like a Dream
21:12 — Writing Realistic Dialogue
23:17 — Did Before Sunrise Predict the Future?
27:04 — What Ethan Hawke Learned Making Tape
29:20 — Dead Poets Society
30:29 — Robin Williams
32:03 — Identity, Empathy, and Becoming a Character
36:24 — What If Ethan Hawke Had Never Made Dead Poets Society?
38:21 — Finding Your Own Path
39:59 — Ethan Hawke on Working With Robin Williams
42:35 — Today's Sponsor: Square
44:33 — Training Day
46:07 — The Legacy of Training Day
49:12 — What Does Improvisation Actually Mean?
51:17 — The Secret Behind the Before Trilogy's Natural Dialogue
53:02 — How Great Directors Create Magic
55:30 — Ethan’s Favorite Scene: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
57:03 — Was Jack Nicholson's Run the Greatest Decade in Acting History?
59:18 — Action Movies
01:01:09 — Ethan Hawke's Next Dream Collaboration

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Josh Hartnett breaks down his most iconic scenes from The Virgin Suicides, Oppenheimer, Pearl Harbor, and Basquiat, and previews his new Netflix series Below, streaming October 8.

On this episode of Scene Stealers, host John Feitelberg sits down with Josh Hartnett to watch and break down the scenes that shaped his career. Josh talks about shooting Below on location in Newfoundland, how he stole a real person's walk for Trip Fontaine, what a Christopher Nolan set is actually like, his Pearl Harbor boot camp, and the time cops showed up with g**s drawn while he was making a short film at a Dairy Queen at 17.

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Cold Open
0:28 Intro: Josh Hartnett on Scene Stealers
0:48 Below on Netflix (October 8)
1:34 Shooting Below on location in Newfoundland
2:30 The Newfoundland accent
4:04 Newfoundland culture and fishing villages
4:22 Why they floated houses between islands
5:19 The iPhone villain rule
6:08 Come From Away, Gander, and Newfoundland hospitality
10:04 Josh's Below wardrobe
10:57 Scene 1: The Virgin Suicides
11:53 How Josh stole a real guy's walk for Trip Fontaine
14:17 Adapting books and why divisive movies matter
15:18 Why a 40% movie beats a safe 80%
16:29 Working with first-time directors and indie films
17:46 Oh Lucy!, the movie more people should see
19:00 "I was on hiatus from people's minds"
19:59 Taking a year off to write a screenplay
22:35 Scene 2: Oppenheimer
23:31 Inside a Christopher Nolan set (no chairs, no phones)
25:18 Emma Thompson hand-delivers the script on red paper
25:54 Casey Affleck's Nolan call and the fear of overstepping
27:15 Chasing roles and the Ashton Kutcher Pearl Harbor story
28:08 Balancing fatherhood and acting
28:48 Filming on location vs. staying in LA
30:12 Scene 3: Pearl Harbor
30:48 Shooting the Pearl Harbor attack and Sergeant Donnelly's boot camp
32:45 Michael Bay's "360 shot" promise
33:37 Ten films in four years and finding his path
35:13 The Dairy Queen short film that ended with cops and guns drawn
36:25 Scene 4: Basquiat
37:03 How Basquiat inspired Josh to pursue the arts
38:41 Josh's Julian Schnabel recommendations
39:17 Wrap up

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Mark Duplass joins Scene Stealers to break down his career : from shooting Creep on a $100 budget in a cabin outside LA to building the Creep Tapes on AMC+ and Shudder, working with a teenage director on Backrooms, and reflecting on 15+ years of doing things his own way. He discusses mental health, mentorship, and why the old rules of "breaking in" don't apply anymore + scene breakdowns from The League, Creep Tape, Safety Not Guaranteed, and Paddleton.
Season 3 of Creep Tapes is out now on AMC+ and Shudder.

00:00 – Cold open
00:03 – Welcome + Creep Tapes Season 3
01:09 – The origin of Creep: shooting on a $100 budget with Patrick
02:38 – "It never has to see the light of day" : how Creep almost didn't exist
03:50 – Selling Creep to Netflix and finding an audience slowly
05:01 – Growing up in New Orleans and redefining what "success" looked like
06:02 – Survivor's guilt and why he mentors young filmmakers
07:28 – "I got my dream and I don't like it anymore"
09:50 – Why he keeps bouncing between big paychecks and $100 shoots
10:54 – Building an "oddball career" as actor/writer/director/producer
11:45 – Mentoring Colin Trevorrow and getting Safety Not Guaranteed made
13:24 – Working with Kane Parsons, the teenage director of Backrooms
15:03 – His mentorship philosophy: belief over advice
16:37 – Opening up about mental health on Instagram
20:15 – The response from fans and why it mattered
21:29 – The Russell Crowe "Beautiful Mind" analogy for mental health
22:11 – Seeing Tori Amos and what healing looks like over time
23:26 – Revisiting his SXSW "Cavalry" speech, 11 years later
24:22 – Why the path is more complicated now but the tenets are the same
25:28 – YouTube and Tubi as the new way to prove your show before streamers buy it
26:51 – CREEP TAPES
27:16 – Playing different characters every episode of Creep Tapes
29:11 – Half-writer, half-actor: his unscripted performance style
33:30 – "Balls equality" and nudity on his own terms
36:01 – SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
37:57 – Scene breakdown: Safety Not Guaranteed
40:12 – Pulling favors to make a $750K movie look expensive
41:15 – The scripts that never get made and why that's fine
42:11 – What actually gets him up in the morning now
43:10 – Sean Baker's Oscar run and stepping back from the chase
44:06 – Producing Elliot Tuttle's $50K film Blue Film
47:04 – THE LEAGUE
48:43 – Remembering $8,000-an-episode beginnings
50:20 – Why big "man-child" comedies stopped getting made
51:41 – Where Tires fits into that conversation
52:38 – Airport encounters and fans who want The League back
53:28 – Learning how to be gracious with fans
54:10 – Signing a six-year deal and deciding Season 7 was "mostly about the money"
56:14 – Behind the scenes with NFL players on The League
58:34 – PADDLETON
59:47 – Paddleton and the breath-holding trick that fooled Ray Romano
01:03:42 – Closing thoughts + where to watch Creep Tape Season 3

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Adria Arjona joins Scene Stealers with John Feitelberg to break down her most iconic movie scenes from ONSLAUGHT (in theaters now), HIT MAN, ANDOR, BLINK TWICE and SPLITSVILLE. Adria reveals the personal detail she pitched for her ONSLAUGHT character, goes deep on working with Tony Gilroy on ANDOR, talks filming SPLITSVILLE's real-blood fight scene with Dakota Johnson, and gets honest about why she can't stop spoiling secrets to the people closest to her.

ONSLAUGHT is in theaters now!

In this interview, Adria Arjona breaks down:

- The self-stabbing tic she came up with for ONSLAUGHT
- Making HIT MAN with Glen Powell and director Richard Linklater
- Working with Tony Gilroy on Star Wars' ANDOR
- Filming BLINK TWICE with Zoë Kravitz in Mérida, Mexico
- The insane real-blood fight scene in SPLITSVILLE
- Why A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE might be the best female performance ever
- Male vs. female directors, and why she wants to cancel method acting

00:00 – Intro
00:03:02 – Reginald Bell Johnson steals ONSLAUGHT
00:04:32 – "All I know is empathy"
00:05:23 – The self-stabbing scene she pitched herself
00:08:44 – HIT MAN
00:10:08 – Why Madison falls for a killer
00:11:19 – The Listerine strips
00:12:55 – Glen Powell's 100 characters
00:16:18 – ANDOR
00:17:12 – Reading her first Star Wars script
00:19:35 – Tony Gilroy picks up on the second ring
00:23:33 – Adria spoiled the ending (to her dad, boyfriend, brother)
00:25:32 – BLINK TWICE
00:26:08 – Living on set in Mérida, Truman Show style
00:27:37 – The Beyoncé needle drop story
00:28:38 – Male vs. female directors
00:29:51 – The actor she couldn't stand & "can we cancel method acting?"
00:32:40 – Monarch
00:34:55 – SPLITSVILLE
00:38:11 – The real-blood fight scene
00:39:46 – A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE

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