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I've heard about this show many years ago and always want to watch it but always procrastinated until now. Amazing show. A lot I want to say but thats not the point of this thread but I have to say Chrissy is my favourite character. Funny because I dont like him the first few episode he was in.
Anyway, I know for a show like this theres gonna be a lot of interesting behind the scene or on the scene tidbit. Would love to read them all.
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David Chase originally wanted every episode to have a different song for the intro. James Gandolfini felt guilty about setting back production a couple of times so he gave each of his costars $33,000 after the show wrapped to make up for it (except for Furio’s actor, he got $34,000). Before Livia’s actress passed, there was a planned storyline where she was gonna testify against Tony with the whole airline ticket thing.
One thousand more?
👈👆👉👇
Up in da club! 🎼
and a television, hd compatible
MADONE! We No even hava'dat in It-lee!
Extra thousand for finding bee on his hat
Is there reason why Furio's actor got extra?. Also I remember noticing Livia scene was edited in pretty bad way and googling whats going on. She played her Livia character really well. Convinced me to hate her. The way she delivered her line and her facial expression.
Rumor is when Gandolfini handed Federico Castelluccio the €33,000, he immediately pocketed it and asked for another €1,000. Gandolfini of course was baffled by such a request, but Furio's actor was uncharacteristically insistent so he paid him another G-note (even though it was bullshit).
"I can't believe this! You're shaking me down for a g-note!"
-- James Gandolfini
One of the perks of method acting.
Got em!
And Up in da club was playing in the b.ground
Furio demanded $1,000 (extra) from JG, just like he did from Chip and Dale in Season 2.
They were stupid little shit-eating twats who have never heard of wiretaps
They also sucked each other’s cocks
The same reason you have to give me one thousand dollars.
Everybody likes to talk shit about that posthumously edited scene but back when it aired that was top tier fx work. Nobody noticed there was anything wrong with that scene and it wasn't until after the season they told everyone how they did it.
Fat Vito is a piece of shit in real life and he lost all of his Sopranos $ gambling.
OHHH he’s a fucking captain now, you don’t talk to him like that!
And can be found in time square selling sopranos memorabilia out of the trunk of his car.
👉🏻➰➰➰➰➰ one thousand more??
Fun fact: blood pressure medication can make you gay.
You can probably get a doctors note
A note that says you don't like to suck cock?
Shuck cawk
I don’t like that kind of cawk, it upsets me.
Like Gary Cooper?
Yes. He was gay, Gary Cooper.
11:30. Has to be. Look at the angle of the sun
HE IS A FAAAAAAG
It would be an honor to drag you behind my car!
You Flambé You!
The guy who played Patsi, Dan Grimaldi, is a professor of operations research and has a PhD. His RateMyProfessors reviews are entertaining.
James Gandolfini would legit eat the food presented in each take, not pretend eat or whatever, unlike most actors, even if there were a lot of takes.
Vito’s wife is played by Melfi’s real life sister.
Tony Sirico was obsessed with his hair and would be the one to do his own hair for the show. It took convincing to make him understand in Pine Barrens that his hair had to get messed up and to agree to let them do it.
I fucking spat my drink
Sausages by the truckload
Wow I just google that to confirmed. Also founds out that Dr.Melfi is even hotter now with her gray hair.
Mad ripe
Pipe-fitter lips
A lot of the actresses in this show aged so very well.
I always thought Gini was beautiful. Rubenesque.
She has more wrinkles than an old lady's cunt
She's married to Aidan Quinn in real life.
Dan Grimaldi was disappointed to have his first character ”Spoons” Parisi killed off quickly. He told his family to let him know if anyone from the show called to ask him back. Grimaldi was in Paris checking out the bin bin concession near the Eiffel Tower when his son called saying they had called him
bon bon
Gandolfini and Bracco partied from time the shooting stopped to when they started up again. Lots and lots of blow and booze. Who knows if it is true but I choose to believe it…Also Silvio’s (Van Sandt) wife in the series is his wife IRL
And Sirico had his own guy who did the wings.
“College” may seem like a tame episode in 2024, but when filming in 1998, HBO fought David Chase heavily on Tony murdering the rat. The main protagonist on a TV show had never committed murder. HBO was worried about the entire audience turning on the show since this was highly controversial. Chase refused and compromised by having the rat be a drug dealer in the show to make him look bad. College would go on to be one of the most influential episodes of TV ever
one of the best earlier episodes. tony toeing the line between being a supportive father and mobster killer
In the scene where Tony and Christopher throw Ralph’s body off the cliff, James Gandolfini and Michael Imperioli got so drunk in between takes that they had to be strapped into chains so they wouldn’t accidentally fall and die.
Fuckin' degenerates.
Their hair was in the toilet water. Disgusting.
You don't understand the disease
I said my piece, Chrissy..
Considering the context of the episode that's basically method acting. Christopher is supposed to be fucked up with the heroin and Tony is prostate with grief. And also getting sprayed in the face with oven cleaner.
Makes sense too since Ralph was killed at breakfast time, and they spend the day chopping and draining his body/cleaning the house. They’d be exhausted and stumbling about by the time they toss the body in the dead of night even if they were in a good headspace.
Michael Imperioli told this story at the 20th anniversary with Good Morning Today
One of my favorites is from Pine Barrens bts. When Bobby shows up at Uncle June’s in his hunting gear and Tony falls over laughing. That was 100% genuine laughter. And not just because Bobby looked like an idiot. But because, according to Steve Schirripa, he came in wielding a huge dildo. Which, naturally, threw James off on account of a huge dildo not being scripted. And what we see is his authentic reaction to Bobby in that ridiculous get up with a giant dildo.
Vito breaking the chair wasn't scripted either
This can’t be true is it
It's true according to IMDB
You can’t make that up
He just did!!!
This, stuff like this always a fun read. Thank you for sharing.
wielding a huge dildo doesn't really do the story justice. He had it stuck to his forehead.
Apparently the prop guy who gave him the dildo , a big double sided bastard, gave it several people to pull a prank. No one knows why the prop master kept that on him at all times either. James was fond of busting it out in his therapy scenes with melfi. Melfi once used the Gloria trillo wig to basic instance James and he fell out the chair laughing.
A huge black dildo
Like an unidentified black dildo?
It was two black dildoes. They went that way.
Steven Van Zandt (Silvio), is married to Maureen Van Zandt, who plays his on-screen wife Gabriella.
She’s a piece of ass. At least she was when he married her
Someone asked her on twitter recently if she took offense to that line.
did she reply?
Found an interview with her talking about that line.
She did and said, essentially, <<I no offended>>
Paulie's actor, Tony Sirico, is the closest thing to a real gangster than any other actor on that show. Per his Wikipedia page:
"Sirico was convicted of several crimes and was arrested 28 times, including for disorderly conduct, assault, and robbery, before taking up acting. In 1967, he served time in prison for the first time as an adult. On February 27, 1970, he was arrested at a restaurant, and found with a .32 caliber revolver on his person. In 1971, he was indicted for extortion, coercion, and felony weapons possession, convicted, and sentenced to four years in prison, of which he served 20 months at Sing Sing."
Ever wonder why Paulie always seems to keep his hands in front of him while standing? It's a defensive stance Sirico learned from life in prison.
He was also a guardian to AJ and Meadow's actors, confronting anyone who approached then who wasn't part of core production or cast.
Sirico originally auditioned to play Junior. They offered him Paulie, he agreed under the condition the character never becomes a rat.
I guess you could call that a role
Heh heh heh
And then they made him new yorks rat
As per a YouTube comment “they made him a weasel instead”
Pussy and silvio were Gandolfini competition for the Tony role. I think they casted them all wonderfully. Apparently Jon nlbon jovi kept hounding Steven van Zandt about getting him a role in the show.
Look at him, he knows everything.
In my book, ya get points for staying outta the can
Which is silly, cuz Paulie went to the can on more than one occasion.
The guy who played Carmine Sr is the gangster depicted in the film 'Green Book.'
That line, a Don never wears shorts. One day late like almost midnight James Gandolfini gets a call from a blocked number and over the line the guy says "we really love the work you're doing. It's great. But one thing, dons never wear shorts." 100% true story, when James told chase and everyone they worked it into a scene asap.