"The Penguin" showrunner Lauren LeFranc "completely respects" John Turturro's choice not to reprise the role of Carmine Calcone in "The Batman" spinoff series because of violence. Turturro, who played the mob boss in the Matt Reeves film,

Speaking to Variety, The Big Lebowski actor said the reason for not returning to the role went beyond scheduling. “I did what I wanted with the role,” he said. “In the show, there was a lot of violence towards women, and that’s not my thing.”

John Turturro says he didn’t reprise his role as Carmine Falcone in The Penguin because the series contains too much “violence towards women.” Turturro played the villainous Carmine Falcone in 2022’s The Batman,

John Turturro has explained why he snubbed the chance to reprise his The Batman role for HBO's The Penguin. The 67-year-old actor played gangster Carmine Falcone in 2022's The Batman opposite lead star Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader.

The Penguin might be one of HBO ’s biggest hit of the year – but an actor who appeared in The Batman isn’t a fan. In the crime drama, an unrecognisable Colin Farrell reprises the role of Oz Cobb, which he originally played in Matt Reeves’s 2022 film The Batman,

He’s not having it. John Turturro, who was in the 2022 movie “The Batman,” said that he opted out of reprising his role in the HBO spinoff series “The Penguin.” “I did what I wanted to with the role,” Turturro,

In 2022's The Batman, John Turturro played mob boss Carmine Falcone. The Penguin, an excellent new spinoff series airing on HBO, follows Carmine's enforcer Oz and his daughter Sofia; Carmine himself featured in a flashback-heavy episode the other week,