Joel and Ethan Coen’s Barton Fink, released in 1991, is the film Lerner is most remembered for. RIP
, alongside Charlotte Rampling. But he considered his first significant role to be in the television movieThe Postman Always Rings Twice
, alongside Jack Nicholson, who he called one of the most generous actors he'd ever worked with, and Jessica Lange. A longtime cigar aficionado, Lerner felt out of his depths when he was asked to smoke a cigarette in a scene with Nicholson in a jail. Lerner said he held the cigarette with both hands.Missiles of OctoberLerner also loved working with John Sayles ont, in which he played Arnold Rothstein, the crime boss who conspired to fix the 1919 World Series.
"Most of the time I don’t rehearse, but I do a lot of preparation. Especially for a biographical character or one of the studio heads," he said in 2016."I did a lot of research forBarton Fink"I had auditioned for Joel and Ethan before, for Miller’s Crossing. So I walked into the room, as the character, and I don’t say hello to anybody. And I sit down behind my desk and do this big speech: ‘Bart! Bart! So great to see you,’" Lerner said in 2016.
Lerner, who drew inspiration from Preston Sturges movies, said the Coens didn’t give him much acting direction and were a little nervous that I was talking so fast but that they let him do what he wanted. The role got him his first and only Oscar nomination, but in 1992, the Academy Award for supporting actor went to Jack Palance forLerner also said he was frequently recognized for his turns in Eddie Murphy’s
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