
Apollo Robbins
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Search complete. 23 mentions across 17 episodes found for "Apollo Robbins".
Nov 7, 2026
Best Of: John Turturro / Jordan Firstman on ‘Club Kid’
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5:23John TurturroGUEST
I was practicing.
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5:24John TurturroGUEST
And Apollo Robbins, who I read a profile of in The New Yorker, who is a brilliant magician, pickpocket, who had half-brothers who were criminals.
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5:36John TurturroGUEST
He really helped me, gave me exercises and worked with me.
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5:40John TurturroGUEST
Usually, pickpockets have worked as teams, a man and a woman, a lot of the time.
Best Supporting Actress Power Rankings with Tyler Coates, Plus John Turturro on The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
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65:43John TurturroGUEST
So I really liked that.
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65:46John TurturroGUEST
And I met this guy, Apollo Robbins, which I read a profile in the New Yorker and Noah and I contacted him and he helped us a lot.
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65:56John TurturroGUEST
He helped me a lot.
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65:57John TurturroGUEST
Gave me all kinds of exercises.
John Turturro could pick your pocket (if he wanted to)
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3:09John TurturroGUEST
I was practicing.
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3:10John TurturroGUEST
And Apollo Robbins, who I read a profile of in The New Yorker, who is a brilliant magician, pickpocket, who had half-brothers who were criminals.
J
3:22John TurturroGUEST
He really helped me, gave me exercises and worked with me.
J
3:26John TurturroGUEST
Usually pickpockets have worked as teams, a man and a woman, a lot of the time.
We take John Turturro to the Cheesecake Factory
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24:53John TurturroGUEST
He's a person who takes care of people, too.
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24:56John TurturroGUEST
But I read a lot of the books, and I read a profile of Apollo Robbins in The New Yorker, who's a magician pickpocket.
J
25:04John TurturroGUEST
And he agreed to help me, first on Zoom and then in person.
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25:10John TurturroGUEST
And he comes from a family of thieves.
UAP Greatest Hits: One on One with "Area 52's" Chris Ramsey
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11:02Chris RamseyGUEST
And I'm still I'm actually aware of certain magicians who've consulted for, you know, these three letter agencies.
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11:09Chris RamseyGUEST
And I think if I'm not mistaken, I think Apollo Robbins, who's like the world's best pickpocket, was often used as in a consulting role, I think.
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11:19Stephen DienerHOST
That's
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11:19Chris RamseyGUEST
wild.
“The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” Director, DP, Production Designer & Costume Designer on Crafting the Film
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2:53Noah SeganGUEST
There's some academic research and, you know, sociological, criminological research that I did a lot of.
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3:01Noah SeganGUEST
But it wasn't really until we got into pre-production and John Turturro found a magician who happens to have the perfect skill set of a pickpocket, don't ask why, named Apollo Robbins, who is an incredibly brilliant personality and magician and pickpocket who actually taught him the skill set to pick the pockets.
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3:25Noah SeganGUEST
And it was John who we were worried about because he would show up to the production office and he would go, oh, you know, I was on the train on the way over here and I saw somebody, they had a tote bag.
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3:34Noah SeganGUEST
It was just open and I could see inside there and I could really just, and I'm like asking Johnny, our line producer, if he can put a line item in the budget to bail John out in case he needed it, which I think we were prepared to do.
Vick's Flicks, Ep. 195: The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
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5:31Brandon VickHOST
The article says Totoro trained with a sleight of hand artist to learn the tricks of his onscreen train.
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5:37Brandon VickHOST
Apollo Robbins is like a concert pianist to Totoro told the New York times.
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5:41Brandon VickHOST
I'm never going to be that.
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5:43Brandon VickHOST
I mean, he could take my watch off and every single time I don't feel it.
Red Carpet: Jesse Eisenberg, John Tarturro and Noah Segan (Hamptons International Film Festival)
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5:22John TurturroGUEST
He wrote him.
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5:23John TurturroGUEST
wonderful script and apollo robbins who is a magician pickpocket uh helped me a lot uh with the actual physical doing of it noah had a lot of uh research books about real pickpockets men and women that usually work with teams and it's uh it's a skill that that was passed on and uh for you know for hundreds of years really when people carried cash and wore certain kinds of you know tie pins that were diamonds and rings.
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5:56John TurturroGUEST
And rings were actually hard, but watches.
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5:58Noah SeganGUEST
Yes,
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18:56John TurturroGUEST
Yeah, I read a lot of books.
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18:57John TurturroGUEST
I read this book, Whiz Mob, and then I met this guy, Apollo Robbins.
J
19:01John TurturroGUEST
I read a profile of him in The New Yorker, and he's a magician pickpocket, and he grew up around sort of a family that... committed crimes.
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19:13John TurturroGUEST
And he took me through everything, but he's like a psychologist too.
Interview With "The Only Living Pickpocket In New York" Filmmaker Noah Segan
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6:02Noah SeganGUEST
And there was some sort of technical aspects to it there as well.
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6:05Noah SeganGUEST
But then he had read an incredible profile on a man named Apollo Robbins, who had been a pickpocket, or I should say, had mastered that skill set and is now a magician, a sleight-of-hand magician.
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6:25Cody DericksCORRESPONDENT
All right.
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6:26Cody DericksCORRESPONDENT
Because it
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