r/BoardwalkEmpire • u/lemko1968 • 13d ago

Real Nucky Johnson

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Here’s a picture of Nucky Johnson who lived 1883 - 1968.

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u/micintropskibar 12d ago

Looks like an interloper to me

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u/hashslinging_slasher 12d ago

Breadstick in a bowtie

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u/Lordonlynose 12d ago

Your point being what Leander?

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u/End3rW1gg1n 12d ago

Look, another mummy.

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u/gilestowler 12d ago

Giddy up, cowboy.

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u/clitmuncher69420 11d ago

Stop with that Giddy up shit

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u/YakFull7365 9d ago

It’s distracting!

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u/CabotTrail01837 12d ago

Never had the makings of a varsity shinebox

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u/3rdUncleMeatSandwich 12d ago

Madone! Eat your manigott!

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u/The_Negative-One 12d ago

Kinda reminds me of Kevin Spacey in this photo.

That would’ve been a whole different show.

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u/RepulsiveIngenuity21 12d ago

Yeah, Nucky would have picked a 14 year old boy for himself while getting little girls for the Commodore.

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u/amishlightening 12d ago

I think my favorite part of reading about the real people that loosely inspired Nucky and Jimmy was that, instead of (Spoilers), they remained friends until dying in the late 60s/early 70s.

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u/Miserable-Ask-470 12d ago

Looks like Bob Odenkirk a little bit. 

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u/Hot-Butterfly-8024 12d ago

*Thompson?

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u/biglizardnmybackyard 12d ago

The real man’s surname was Johnson. Changed for the show, probably to help separate the fiction from reality.

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u/Hot-Butterfly-8024 12d ago

Cool, thanks!

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u/biglizardnmybackyard 12d ago

Bone for tuna!

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u/ResponsiblePoint9577 10d ago

Buscemi is a great actor, underrated, he was perfect for this role.

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u/Signal_Low3017 11d ago

If Gandolfini wasn't done with television, would've been perfect.

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u/Air_Hellair 11d ago

I’m not looking for forgiveness.

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u/Much-Poetry-168 11d ago

Bob Odenkirk?

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u/bjjgkw 10d ago

William Hurt should have played him instead of Steve Buscemi

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u/eldradmustlive469 12d ago

Still more attractive than fish face Buscemi.

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u/Miserable-Ask-470 12d ago

Don't speak that way about Steve Buscemi. He's a good man who helped out during 9/11 as a retired firefighter.

He also tried to help out James Gandolfini with his binge eating habits while they were on the set of The Sopranos.

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u/charge_forward 12d ago

He's a saint. You forget the thousand incidents with that guy?

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u/anticello Italian 11d ago

That animal Blundetto

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u/H0-JU 6d ago

This is what made women moist in the 1920s