Steve Buscemi has kept on a good poker face all these years.
In fact, the actor, 67, has yet to correct anyone on the way his surname is pronounced. Now, Buscemi is setting the record straight.
While on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday, the producer spoke about his cameo on the AppleTV+ series “The Studio,” with host Jimmy Fallon.
The two discussed the scenes where the cast can’t figure out how to properly pronounce Buscemi’s last name.
“At one point, they said ‘Brusch-kemi,’ like bruschetta,” Fallon, 50, recounted, as Buscemi quipped, “I don’t like that one.”
“Boo-shemi, I like that,” the “Wednesday” star teased. “That is the Italian way to say it, but I just didn’t grow up that way.”
“Growing up, we said Bue-semi, which I can’t even do that anymore,” Buscemi continued.
Now, he is pronouncing his last name with the combination of “boo” and “semi.”
Buscemi added, “I sort of take a little bit from each pronunciation.”
He joked, “I don’t know how to say my own name.”
Fallon also inquired which last name Buscemi went with when he was doing stand-up.
“I shortened it to Buse,” the “Poker Face” actor replied. “You can imagine the fun that MCs had with that.”
Along with Buscemi’s proper pronunciation of his moniker, the actor is also making headlines for his latest performance in Netflix’s “Wednesday.”
The star joined the cast in Season 2 as Nevermore’s new headmaster, Principal Dort.
“I mean, I’ve been a fan of the show ‘Addams Family’ since I was a kid,” Buscemi told Fallon. “And then the movies. Then the first season too, before I knew I was going to be in the second season, I loved the first season.”
As for how the experience was for the “Sopranos” alum, he stated: “Everybody was great.”
“I had worked with Tim Burton before, and I had worked with Jenna Ortega before,” Buscemi continued. “But you come into something that is so well established and that people love. It is a little intimidating.”
Along with the legendary actor coming aboard, the horror series gained another Hollywood vet: Mother Monster.
Lady Gaga, 39, made her debut on part two of Season 2 as the deceased Nevermore Academy professor, Rosaline Rotwood.
The actress appeared in episode six after Wednesday (Ortega) is advised by her grandmother Hester (Joanna Lumley) to visit Rotwood’s grave in order to strengthen her psychic powers.
However, Enid (Emma Myers) interrupts the ritual, which results in a body swap between Enid and Wednesday.
Gaga also recorded the song “The Dead Dance” for Season 2, with a music video directed by Tim Burton.
Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, who plays Deputy Sheriff Ritchie Santiago in “Wednesday,” recently spoke with The Post about having the singer on set.
“Gaga was like a spectre through the night,” they gushed. “Like you could feel the after-effect of her having been on set because everybody was still abuzz with that energy.”
“I didn’t necessarily cross paths with her at all. I wasn’t shooting during that period,” Lewis-Nyawo elaborated. “But I know that the production had to take a lot of security measures to make sure that she was safe, because with Gaga, that just comes with so many fans.”
“It was really, really exciting,” they said, “but unfortunately I didn’t get to hang out with her.”
“I think that [because of] everybody’s NDAs, we just keep it all tidy and tidy,” detailed Lewis-Nyawo. “As any kind of artist, regardless of where you are in your career and how much fame you might have or how much reach you might have, it’s important to just keep that space a working space and allow people to just be able to show up as themselves and do the job that they need to do. So we take that out of the space.”
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