Chris Rock says he turned down offers to join ‘The Sopranos’

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The Sopranos.The comedian and actor said he was asked to join the HBO show a number of times but always refused because he didn’t want to “spoil it”.Speaking on a panel for The Hollywood Reporter, Rock said: “Sometimes you can respect something so much, you don’t even want to be a part of it.“Years ago, when I had my own show on HBO, it was at the height of The Sopranos, and I got a couple of offers to be on The Sopranos, and I was like, ‘I like it too much, I don’t want to spoil it’.”It comes after Alec Baldwin recently said that he once pitched to appear in the crime drama.He revealed that he had cold-called The Sopranos production team and pitched them on casting him as Tony Soprano’s murderer.“I called up whoever it was and said,.