James Gandolfini: Last News

HBO’s The Sopranos.The actress, who played Meadow Soprano in the beloved drama, was speaking on the Life Is Short podcast when she revealed that she only found out about her on-screen dad’s generosity after he died.Sigler was diagnosed with the disease in 2002, during the making of the show, and Gandolfini was the first person that she shared the news with on set.“I found out after his death that he donated to MS organizations constantly for me,” she said.Remembering the moment that she shared her diagnosis with him, she said: “He pulled me aside one day and he said, ‘Jamie, what is going on?’ I just fell in a puddle in his arms. And I was just like, ‘I’m so scared, but I have MS, and I don’t know how to tell anybody.’ And he’s like, ‘Your secret’s safe with me.'”Sigler has been highly complimentary of the late actor in the past, revealing last year that Gandolfini would often publicly doubt himself and proclaim “I fucking suck” on set during the making of the HBO classic, adding that she felt it was primarily a way for him to help his fellow actors.“It had nothing to do with his confidence,” Sigler told the Inside of You podcast.

The Sopranos is one of the most beloved television shows of all time.

James Gandolfini‘s son Michael is sharing his thoughts on the rumored The Sopranos prequel series.

Michael Gandolfini, the son of the late James Gandolfini, is opening up about reprising the Tony Soprano role in a potential Sopranos prequel series.

The Sopranos‘ actor Lorraine Bracco has opened up about her character’s “abrupt” ending in the popular TV series.The actress portrayed the role of Dr. Jennifer Melfi, the psychiatrist of Mafia boss Tony Soprano (played by the late James Gandolfini). In an interview with The Independent, Bracco discussed her character’s sudden ending.In season six episode 20 titled “The Blue Comet”, Melfi decides to sever her ties with with the mobster after being berated by her colleagues at a dinner party.

Michael Gandolfini’s star rose sharply with his appearance in 2021 The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark as a young Tony Soprano, the fictitious crime boss immortalized by his late father James Gandolfini.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jeremy Strong said in a recent interview with The Times of London that playing Kendall Roy on HBO’s “Succession” for four seasons “fucked me up.” The actor won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the role, but he has no interest in returning to the world of “Succession” because he “sometimes lost touch with joy” while having to stay in Kendall’s tortured mindset. “That show was an incalculable gift. The material a banquet.

James Gandolfini almost walked out on The Sopranos following a failed drugs intervention, according to those behind the show.The actor, who passed away in 2013, famously played the role of mobster Tony Soprano across the show’s six seasons between 1999 and 2007.Speaking in new documentary Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos, HBO CEO Chris Albrecht recalled the actor’s struggles with substance abuse during production.“We did an intervention with him at my apartment in New York,” he said. “That was to try to get him to go to a facility for rehab.

also previously reported in the 2021 book, “Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers.” According to the book, Gandolfini signed a contract that would pay him $5 million per season. HBO doubled his salary after the third season aired in 2001.“The Sopranos” aired for six seasons, from 1999 to 2007. Gandolfini died from a heart attack at age 51 in 2013.

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.

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,”) the documentary dives into behind the scenes details about the making of “The Sopranos,” and creator David Chase’s background. Various cast and crew members give interviews onscreen, including Chase, Michael Imperioli, Edie Falco, Drea de Matteo and Lorraine Bracco. During their first meeting, Gibney, who said he’s a fan of the show, found Chase to be “a fascinating and amazing character,” he told The Post.

“Five Families: The Rise, Decline and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires” by Selwyn Raab. Premiering Sunday, Aug. 11 (8 p.m.), the three-part series covers the rise and fall of New York City’s five Mafia families, including archival images, footage, audio recordings, and on-camera interviews with historians, experts, law enforcement, witnesses, and former Mafia affiliates.

Marta Balaga Nicole Holofcener wouldn’t mind reuniting with her “Friends With Money” star Jennifer Aniston. “Maybe we will work together again,” she says. “She knew my movies.

Jon Hamm has revealed that he become a mentor to James Gandolfini’s son following the Sopranos star’s sudden death.Gandolfini died of a heart attack in 2013 at the age of 51. His son Michael was 14 years old at the time.Now, in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Hamm has revealed that Michael “reached out” to him when the actor died, due to encouragement from his father.“He said, ‘My dad told me that you were a good guy,'” explained Hamm, noting that he was emotional about the interaction.

“Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos,” premiered at Tribeca Film Festival on June 13 and revealed how the late Gandolfini battled demons while playing a mob boss on the iconic HBO series. His TV wife, Edie Falco, said in the doc that Gandolfini “was a very good, kindhearted man,” but that the role “may have taken a toll on him,” according to USA Today.

Lexi Carson The cast and creatives behind “The Sopranos” reunited at Tribeca Festival Thursday night in celebration of the series’ 25th anniversary. They gathered for the premiere of Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary, “Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos,” which played to a packed audience at the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side of Manhattan Thursday night. The two-hour-and-40-minute documentary begins with “The Sopranos” opening credit sequence driving into New Jersey.

Robert Iler, aka Tony Soprano’s son A.J., said it best tonight at Tribeca’s 25th anniversary of The Sopranos get-together: “Now my friends are going to shitty high school reunions and I’m going to cool stuff like this.”

The Sopranos’ Jamie-Lynn Sigler has criticised “healthy and perfect” people that choose to take the weight-loss drug Ozempic.The actress, who played Tony Soprano’s daughter Meadow on the beloved show, was speaking on her MeSsy podcast with Christina Applegate, where she said that the current trend for the drug has left her “a little triggered”.“I’m annoyed at myself that I’m admitting this,” she said. “It’s upsetting me.

Tony and Carmela Soprano back together, all in the name of Lebron James.Though Tony was last seen in The Sopranos final episode in 2007, it turns out he made one more appearance after that.Back in 2010, a video was made to encourage NBA player Lebron James to sign with the New York Knicks. James had just entered free agency for the first time ever, and the Knicks were eager to sign him.As the story goes, the Knicks execs put together a video to convince the legendary basketball player, a strategy which included featuring plenty of New York celebrities at the time including Chris Rock, Harvey Weinstein and former US President Donald Trump.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “The Sopranos” fans got thrown a curveball in 2021 when Edie Falco revealed for the first time on an Atlantic podcast that she once reunited with James Gandolfini to reprise Tony and Carmela Soprano for a bizarre clip set two years after the events of the series finale, which infamously ended with a cut-to-black that left Tony’s fate in the balance. The purpose of the clip was to help the New York Knicks basketball organization lure LeBron James to the team. Gandolfini and Falco shot the “Sopranos” reunion in 2010 as James was becoming a free agent after his contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers expired.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jeremy Strong‘s Emmy-winning tenure as Kendall Roy on HBO’s “Succession” is over, and he told The New York Times Magazine in a recent interview that “there was a moment when the show ended where I felt a profound sense of, ‘Was this the thing? Was this the event of my life?’ And then a great determination to achieve exit velocity from it so I could attempt to do more.” That “more” is now coming into focus. Strong is currently on Broadway headlining the play “Enemy of the People” alongside Michael Imperioli and Victoria Pedretti. He’s also set to play Roy Cohn in the upcoming biographical drama “The Apprentice,” which features Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump.