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Watch: Woody Allen as a pimp, Liev Schreiber as a Hasid in Trailer #2 for ‘Fading Gigolo’

Check it out people: The latest trailer for John Turturro’s film “Fading Gigolo,” in which he plays a newly-minted male prostitute who gets farmed out by Woody Allen.
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January 9, 2014

Check it out people: The latest trailer for John Turturro’s  film “Fading Gigolo,” in which he plays a newly-minted male prostitute who gets farmed out by Woody Allen.

Besides Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara playing ladies looking for a manage a trois, there’s also Vanessa Paradis as a lonely Hasidic woman and Liev Schreiber as a peyos-adorned Hasidic man.

It’s unclear if anything goes down between Turturro and Paradis’ characters, but it’s clear they experience an emotional connection.

“There’s a certain woman in our community I’ve never seen her smile, not like this,” Schreiber’s Dovi says in the clip.

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