Don’t mess with Troy Kotsur.

The Oscar-winning actor, 57, takes on a new persona as Joe Mancuso, an intimidating underworld figure in Netflix’s new crime drama “Black Rabbit,” which also stars Jude Law as a restaurateur who is forced into nefarious activities when his brother, played by Jason Bateman, returns to town.

“I heard a lot of stories in the deaf community that really helped me develop my character,” he told The Post exclusively at the show’s premiere last week in New York. 9

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The “Foundation” star explained that “back in the 60s and 70s, a lot of deaf people were unemployed,” and were forced to earn money, sometimes illegally.

“Before the ADA, there wasn’t a lot of unemployment for the deaf community, so we had to sustain ourselves, sometimes through a lot of blac

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