Julia Louis-Dreyfus recalls working with 'tender' late 'Sopranos' star James Gandolfini: 'A teddy bear'
foxnews.comJulia Louis-Dreyfus opened up about working with "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini on one of his final films before his death in June 2013 at the age of 51.
The 62-year-old actress starred opposite the late actor in the 2013 romantic-comedy "Enough Said" in which they played a pair of divorcees who fall in love.
Louis-Dreyfus, who had never met Gandofini prior to filming the movie, recalled how he was very different from the ruthless mob boss he portrayed for six seasons in the hit HBO series. "He was a teddy bear," the "Seinfeld" alum told Vanity Fair in an interview published Wednesday. "He was a tender guy, and so I’m very happy that he made this film. "Not only because I got to work with him," Louis-Dreyfus added. "But the public got to see him not as a mafia boss, but as somebody closer to himself — who was very vulnerable and very kind-hearted." From 1999 to 2007, Gandolfini played Tony Soprano, the conflicted head of the New Jersey-based DiMeo crime family.
Soprano became Gandolfini's best-known role, and the actor won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe among other accolades for his performance.
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