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Steve Buscemi's career - Radio Times, August 2004 |
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David Butcher casts an eye over some highlights in the actor's career.
Steve Buscemi is so good at playing creeps,
it's hard to imagine him as anything else.
"So many times when I read about myself it starts off:
'The bug-eyed,
sleazy weirdo… " he jokes.
"And OK,
I guess I've done enough of those
roles [to know] that that's what sticks."
But there's more to Buscemi.
For instance,
in
the early
1980s he worked as a firefighter in New
York.
Years later,
he reported to his old firehouse
in Little Italy and spent five days helping to dig
through the rubble of the
World
Trade Center.
It's the kind of act you can't imagine from one
of his many screen characters,
such as the
stroppy Mr Pink in Reservoir Dogs,
or the inept
kidnapper in Fargo. Now he turns up in [series five] of The Sopranos
as
Tony's cousin Tony
Blundetto.
"He was in jail for truck hijacking,"
Buscemi explains."He has to take a civilian job
to make money,
and he's not crazy about it."
Buscemi's directed three episodes before,
but
series creator David Chase wanted him in front
of the camera.
"There's something sweet about
Steve," Chase observes,
"yet he can also project
danger and insanity." Just what The Sopranos
needs:
more danger and insanity.
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Now take a look at our full guide to The Sopranos.
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