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After Robert De Niro dropped the project, Steven Zaillian found out Turturro was open to doing work on television; he snatched him up with no questions asked. "And the truth is that I had a short list of actors at the beginning," Zaillian told A.V. Club. "John Turturro was on that list, and so was James Gandolfini. So for me, to consider John doing this was — I mean, I had already considered him doing it at the beginning!"