INTERVIEW: Director Andrey Konchalovskiy on John Tarturo's

The video discusses John Turturro's unique roles in American cinema, highlighting his eccentric performances in films like 'Big Lebowski'. It then transitions to the speaker's creative decision to use rats instead of mice in a Nutcracker adaptation, set in a retro-futuristic 1930s Vienna, to avoid negative connotations associated with mice due to Mickey Mouse and to symbolize evil.

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