Apparently the role of Nick Nightingale in Eyes Wide Shut was written specifically for John Turturro

but he didn't get the part because he wasn't clear enough in the phone call he had with Kubrick that he would be 100% down to do it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9c7bKDErAM

I can't believe the guy that played a pedophile balked at this role.

that guy also was in a film called new port south which I'm assuming I'm the only one who watched it and still remembers it; also directed one episode of carnivale