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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.

Howard Stern’s radio show.But once he did the dream quickly became a nightmare — with him being egged into humiliating himself, but giving him an irresistible taste of fame.Grillo says he never wanted to be on the air and took the job with the intention of working behind the scenes. However, he says Stern unexpectedly preyed on him, despite being a dyslexic college kid.“The place was a snake-pit; you never knew when you were going to be set up,” Grillo told The Post.“I was always a nervous wreck and it got worse when they brought me on the show.“I’d have Robin [Quivers, co-host] cackling in my ear; somebody would be throwing balls of paper in my face … Then I would have Howard staring at me, with his piercing blue eyes darting all over the place, trying to make me look worse than I already did.”Shock jock Stern was a different person back when Grillo, now 58, worked for him in the 90s on New York’s WXRK station.Pre-woke, decades before he did softball interviews with Joe Biden, Stern’s politics leaned Republican.“He definitely got George Pataki elected Governor [of New York in 1995] and he was a big [Rudy] Giuliani supporter,” said Grillo.

“The Sopranos,” said Tony Sirico — who played mobster Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri on the hit show — accidentally “whacked” him with a real pipe during a scene.“Sirico had two pipes, a lead pipe and a rubber pipe, one to use when the camera was on me, and one to use when the camera was on him,” Diamantopoulos, 49, said in an interview with People published Wednesday.“Which one do you think he used on me the first time? The answer is it wasn’t the fake one,” Diamantopoulos said.The actor joked, “It was a rite of passage to be whacked by Paulie Walnuts.”Diamantopoulos appeared in the fourth episode of the show’s final season in 2006 as Jason Barone, a family friend of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini).“I remember doing a scene with him where he was in the hospital. His character had to have stabbing pains in his abdomen,” Diamantopoulos recalled of his time working with Gandolfini, who died of a heart attack in 2013.“I remember him outside on a break, looking for a particular stone.

The Sopranos star Drea de Matteo has revealed that she voted for Republican nominee Donald Trump in the US presidential election.“Guess who we voted for?” The Emmy-winning actress said in an Instagram Story with her boyfriend, Michael Devin. “We voted for ourselves.

“Sopranos” star, 52, told Fox News Digital that walking away from the industry was “no big deal,” because she never really felt like she belonged in Hollywood in the first place. “You know, a lot of people ask me about getting canceled or getting kicked out of Hollywood or shunned. That never happened to me,” she explained.

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.

“Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos,” Drea de Matteo, star of “The Sopranos,” said that she misunderstood what the hit mafia series was about when she first auditioned. Now on HBO (and Max), the documentary sees de Matteo, 52, say onscreen, “I didn’t know that [the show] had anything to do with being Italian. I thought it was about opera singers.”The Emmy-winning HBO series aired for six seasons from 1999 to 2007, following mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), his family, and his various associates such as Christopher (Michael Imperioli) and his girlfriend, Adriana.

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.

posting a photo of a young-looking, short-haired Kamala Harris with the caption “I would vote for her based on this photo alone” on Instagram Sunday.“Dude, you’re losing your sh-t,” wrote one of Imperioli’s 364,000 followers. “This is real embarrassing my guy” another scolded, while a third asked, “Are you ok?” One commenter pointed out that the presidential candidate’s “looks have nothing to do with political capital.”Some even speculated that the Upper West Side actor, 58, who tagged @kamalahq in the caption of the photo — which showed Harris in red lipstick and a popped collar — was getting paid by Harris’ campaign.“This is what it looks like when your acting career falls apart and you need money,” one quipped.“Imperioli has been bought by the corrupt entities that promise him roles on TV and movies . .

HBO have announced a documentary telling the story behind the acclaimed mob drama The Sopranos and its creator David Chase.Director by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, the two-part documentary, Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos, will air on the network on September 7, with both parts airing consecutively. They will also be available to stream on HBO Max.The synopsis reads: “25 years after the show first debuted, HBO’s paradigm-shifting series The Sopranos remains a cultural phenomenon and a touchstone for prestige television.

We may not be getting a reboot or a sequel to “The Sopranos” anytime soon. And depending on who you are, that is either good or bad.

The Godfather Part II, has died at the age of 83.The news was confirmed by the actor’s manager Will Levine, who stated that he passed away from natural causes.Aprea portrayed the younger version of Tessio in Francis Ford Coppola’s acclaimed 1974 sequel to The Godfather, picking up the role played by Abe Vigoda in the original film.Aprea’s Tessio befriends Robert De Niro’s Corleone as they begin their careers in the Manhattan Mafia underworld in the early 1940s. As Corleone rises to power, he enlists Tessio as his capo – a made man – and Tessio establishes his own regime in Brooklyn.In preparing for the role, Aprea contacted Vigoda for advice, receiving the response: “I don’t know what I did.

“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.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler detailed her 10-year-old son’s “nightmare” ICU visit that led to an autoimmune disorder diagnosis.According to the TV star, her son has been diagnosed with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM).“4 weeks ago, what seemed like a normal virus for our son, turned into a nightmare,” Sigler shared Tuesday on Instagram. “Beau has what we believe to be, ADEM.

“Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo shared how her 13-year-old son, Waylon “Blackjack,” edits her OnlyFans photos for her during an episode of the “Not Today, Pal” podcast.During a discussion with hosts Robert Iler and Jamie-Lynn Sigler about her content creation, de Matteo momentarily apologized to her children on the other side of the door.“Blackjack and Alabama. My kids are out there. I’m sorry guys.

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.

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 reunited in New York earlier this week to speak at a panel at the Tribeca Film Festival.In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the US crime drama television series and the premiere of Alex Gibney’s documentary, Wise Guy: David Chase And The Sopranos, members of the cast and crew appeared for an exclusive panel interview.As reported by The Guardian, many cast members expressed their gratitude at being part of such a close team.Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who portrayed Meadow Soprano, said: “That set was home, these people were home, and they accepted you no matter what.” Meanwhile Robert Iler, who played A.K., now 39, said: “My friends are all going to shitty college reunions, and I get to come here.”Also in attendance was actor Steve Buscemi, who directed several episodes and guest-starred in season five. He spoke about reading the pilot script and admitting “I didn’t get it.” He explained how he then witnessed it become a huge success and thought, “Wow, I fucked up!”Executive producers Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire, The Wolf Of Wall Street) and Matthew Weiner (Mad Men) joined the series’ creator David Chase at the panel.

“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.