156 The character of Jesus Quintana, an opponent of The Dude's bowling crew, was impressed in element by a general performance the Coens experienced observed John Turturro give in 1988 at the Public Theater in a engage in named Mi Puta Vida in which he performed a pederast-kind character, "so we believed, let us make Turturro a pederast. It'll be a little something he can really operate with," Joel mentioned in an job interview.