i'm hollywood actor and teenoidol steve buscemi. if you're anything like me, you might have noticed that i wasn't nominated for an oscar this year. but it's not for lack of trying. in fact, i auditioned for every single best picture nominee this year. let's take a look at what could have been. yes, my name is renalds woodcox and-- i'm sorry. ( clears throat ) my name is reynolds woodclock-- that's a funny name. you have to admit. reynolds? ( laughter )

stay right where you are, soup. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ we're back with the lovely and talented steve buscemi. median briefly? >> very briefly. >> stephen: and what part of your career are we talking about here? >> i was very young. i hadn't done anything. i had just moved to the city from long island, and i always loved comedy. like, i grew up on, you know-- well, in the beginning like rodney dangerfield, and people like that. and later george carl and i know steve mart glin, o martin. i loved them. i knew i wanted to be an actor, but i just didn't know how to go about it. but i had read or i had heard that stand-up comedians sometimes got their own sitcoms or got on a sitcom. and i thought that was okay. so if i write my own stuff and if i can get into a club and perform, maybe somebody will sea me and cast me in their tv show. that's-- that's all i wanted to do. and the clubs there were. you just had to pass the auditions. i don't know how i did it, but i somehow passed the auditions at the improv in the late 70s and people like seinfeld were there, and gilbert godfried, and larry david intr

i'm hollywood actor and teenoidol steve buscemi.ng like me, you might have noticed that i wasn't nominated for an oscar this year. but it's not for lack of trying. in fact, i auditioned for every single best picture nominee this year. let's take a look at what could have been. yes, my name is renalds woodcox and-- i'm sorry. ( clears throat ) my name is reynolds woodclock-- that's a funny name. you have to admit. reynolds?

i'm hollywood actor and teenoidol steve buscemi. anything like me, you might have noticed that i wasn't nominated for an oscar this year. but it's not for lack of trying. in fact, i auditioned for every single best picture nominee this year. let's take a look at what could have been. yes, my name is renalds woodcox and-- i'm sorry. ( clears throat ) my name is reynolds woodclock-- that's a funny name. you have to admit.

. >> and steve buscemi is nikita kruschev and he ends up being the next leader of the soviet union. but i guess, you know, it is interesting that it comes out now when there's a nascent cold war between russia and the west. particularly the united states. and some of the official russians' criticism has been that it's sewing discourt, that it is a historical poison, right at the time they're being accused of doing the same thing with their election and cyber hacking. >> exactly. i think they were worried it might affect the election and i know putin is very very on to the idea of interfering in the election of another country but i made the film. i was interesting -- i did "veep" on hbo for four years and i knew i wanted to do something about authoritarianism and i was thinking about doing a fictional dictator, american dictator, british, i don't know. something general was happening in the ether around europe. we had these strong man figures like berlusconi in italy and erdogan in turkey and, of course, putin and there are nationalist movements, far right movements, he pen in franc

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