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John Turturro – the quirky character actor who once played a racist pizza shoveller and a paedophile bowler – now regularly crops up in blockbusters such as Transformers. He tells Donald Clarke about walking the line between big and small movies, how he almost played Dev in Michael Collins, and why he’s intent on making The Big Lebowski II

‘OH HEY, you’re over here from Dublin?” John Turturro says. “I’m hoping to go there next year. I just finished this production of a play by Samuel Beckett, Endgame, and we’re trying to get to Ireland with it.”