Tulsa King Season 2 actor Tatiana Zappardino in a close-up and walking with Sylvester Stallone
Tulsa King, the hit Paramount+ series from creator Taylor Sheridan and head writer Terence Winter, is currently in the midst of its second season. The ongoing saga of Dwight"The General" Manfredi sees the erstwhile New York gangster establishing his own criminal empire in Tulsa, Oklahoma, all while trying to reconnect with his daughter, Tina.
Tulsa King's Tatiana Zappardino on Sharing the Screen with Sylvester Stallone "I think I'm the only character who can get away with calling him out on his s--t." Close Screen Rant: I've talked to Terence Winter about this a little bit, the Stallone of it all.
Tatiana Zappardino: I agree. I say it all the time, I think I'm the only character who can get away with calling him out on his s--t. If anyone else did it, they'd get a pole to the face. But when Tina does it, it's like, oh, okay. Maybe you're right. Maybe I should look at that, you know? She's kind of his Achilles' heel in that sense, you know?
We gotta, you know, give homage to Terence Winter, he's a brilliant writer. But sometimes something just comes out, and you can't hold it in. It comes out naturally. And it's not like they have to use that take, you know. But with Sly, because he's executive producer, writer, whatever, all this stuff, I have a little bit more freedom with him where he lets me be a little more flexible. And obviously, we still stick to the script, but we can throw in buttons here and there.
I think that's where the different dynamic is. She has to be the buffer between us sometimes, explaining to Tina what Dwight is doing or saying or his reasons for something, because Tina doesn't always understand because of that separation, because she didn't grow up with him. He's almost a stranger to her. So I think, yeah, that's kind of what her purpose is, bridging the gap between them.
I imagine that's prevalent on gangster shows or zombie shows where it's like, hey, you know, just one wrong move and your guy will catch a bullet! I have like a lore and character question. I don't know how much you can answer, how much might be explored later on in the season. But Tina's first or second episode, you know, ends with the, depending on who you ask, fantastic murder of the guy who sexually assaulted you.
Tatiana Zappardino: You know, since that episode of like being open about what was going on, it seems like Tina hasn't really opened up to him as much. It seems like she has kind of created this barrier around herself, you see in one of the more recent episodes, he wanted to talk to her and she's like,"No, we'll talk later. I have nothing to say to you. I don't even want to discuss it." I think it was episode one. Yeah, when he got out on bail. Right.
Tatiana Zappardino: You know, it's funny. My goals changed throughout your life, right? Like my goal when I was young was SNL, 100%. But then as I grew older, I was like, you know what, I don't want to be limited to SNL. I love SNL, but maybe I could just be a host one day, right? I've been on TV a bunch, but I've never done a movie, ever. And I want to be in a movie, but it's so much harder to get a movie.
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