series creator David Chase was Italian, and scoffed at his audacity for trying to tell a mafia story. “I kind of thought ‘Who’s this guy’ making a show about Italians! Scorsese and Coppola were Italian Americans,” said Imperioli, who was also in Scorsese’s modern classic mob movie, “Goodfellas.” He added, “But I worked really hard on it, and went in [to audition] for David [Chase]. And David is very poker faced….I walked out of [the audition] thinking, ‘This aint gonna happen.
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