And so I didn't go to law school. Not taking questions.
So naturally, I said absolutely nothing to the man–partly because I don’t even know what I would have said.didn’t seem like a valid enough contribution to warrant interrupting someone spending time with their kid. So, I quietly collected this moment into my “New York encounters” file along with the 20+ times that I and everyone else in Brooklyn have seen Paul Giamati on the train and pranced home to call my dad.
Later that week, I was walking around Manhattan with my friend, a filmmaker, when he stopped mid-sentence, grabbed my arm, and said, “Holy shit, that’s John Turturro.” Indeed it was. We both remained still and wide-eyed as the actor walked past us, and as soon as he was out of ear shot, we squealed in tandem. I told my friend how I had just seen Turturro two days earlier in Brooklyn, and we agreed that this was a mathematically improbable and delightful coincidence.
I love you, my dad loves you, it was me in the bodega, and me on the street the other day, do you remember?The law school that I was most interested in attending at the time was NYU, because it was local and familiar, had great law clinics, and one of my most beloved professors taught there. I’d kept stopping in front of the NYU building where one of my grad school classes was held, and it reaffirmed how badly I wanted to go there. I loved everything about it.
It was a lucid dream, as opposed to something deeper and more paralytic where you can’t participate, and everything happens to you and around you, so I responded therein: “What should I do instead?!” And Turturro simply repeated: “Don’t go to law school.” The dream ended, and I woke up.Far be it for me to question John Turturro’s process, but I will say, even many years later, I feel like this was a deeply unhelpful delivery.
When I relayed this story recently, someone asked if I had ever thought that John Turturro was also thinking, “Why do I keep seeing that woman everywhere?” I can tell you without reservation that in the time since this famous man told me not to go to law school, I’ve asked myself that question zero times.
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