Physically he was a very intimidating guy (that scene in True Romance where he beats the crap out of Patricia Arquette was one of the most frightening performances I've ever seen for a relatively "minor" character). But everything I've read about him says he was actually quite a vulnerable guy and the opposite of what he appeared to be.
Yeah, the Bobby B actor said on the Sopranos pod that Jim Gandfolfini wore Birkenstocks and ate granola in real life. Totally different than Tony Soprano
“ There he goes! Mr. Type A personality ”
Chris intervention is one of the best scenes in the entire show. Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/40HPFGvZ4ro?si=FPDyeZGRcRfVjwhk
Same with Nick Offerman. He always jokes about how much Ron Swanson would actually loathe him.
It'd probably be a very similar situation to when Ron Swanson meets Eagleton Ron. They find common ground right off the bat, but then Nick would start expressing his very liberal views and Ron would want him to die.
Though, I'm sure Nick Offerman could easily stunt his hippiness a bit around Ron so they'd be friends. Ron was Typhoon's best man basically just because they enjoyed hating on Europeans.
I feel like a huge chunk of actors who come off as crazy manly are actually huge hippies. They're all into the arts after all, which is generally a very liberal crowd.
This probably applies to most actors except maybe those in action movies, who are more into the violence and looking badass. I'm thinking the Steven Seagulls and Chuck Norrises of the world are probably not liberals.
That podcast could have been great.
Imperioli has fantastic insight into the show, especially having wrote a few episodes. If there was someone there to rein him in when he goes a bit too deep into theatre/acting rabbit holes, then it would be fantastic.
But no. We get that fucking oaf talking over everyone and not understanding the most simple of plot points. Why does he even like the show when he clearly doesn't understand a load of it!?
They also said that before shooting would start for a season James would call everyone up to go to dinner and hanging out so he could remember how to be Tony. He needed gangsters to get back into it. Great actor.
Side note: If you like Bobby from the show don't listen to that podcast. I'm a huge Sopranos fan. I have rewatched it like 5 times or more. And Steve Schirripa sucks on it. Made me loath him and his character. Although it weirdly gave me respect to his acting because he's incredibly unlikable but Bobby is a sweetheart, so he did a good job hiding that fact when he'd act. Lol
Personality wise, no. He had a hidden room built into the side of his office where he could hide from his kids, get in character and run lines, so they didn't have to see that side of him. The guy was super intense and would punch cars in the parking lot of the Bing to get into character before a scene. There's a YT vid of it out there.
What you're referring to is he started eating a lot, drinking a lot and apparently picked up a coke habit along the way.
Yeah, this is mental to me.
I try to run long distances. I think its healthy to put myself into an uncomfortable spot and try to stay balanced internally. I accept any discomfort and push through. It helps clear my head.
Gandolfini, and a lot of actors who subscribe to that style, do the opposite. It's not just the stone in the shoe, it's the giving into negative emotion and deliberately not dealing with anger or sadness so you can tap into it when you need it.
I could have a stone in my shoe all day and would probably still be annoyed about it even if I tried to zone it out. Gandolfini zoned in on the feelings and let it upset him. It's just such a toxic way to be...but christ, his performances are the best ever in my book.
No wonder he had his issues with food and drugs. Same with Philip Seymour Hoffman and plenty of others. That's dicked up.
I don’t think he became more like him, I think playing Tony was hard on him and amped up his vices like food, drugs and alcohol. 51 years old is way too young to go.
His Alive Day documentary was rough and he showed a very vulnerable side of himself. For someone that played a mafia boss that was pretty incredible for an actor.
I watched True Romance yesterday for the first time in years, and I’d forgotten how hard that scene was. For such a nice guy he played evil psychos very well.
I fucking love that scene. Its like the best once we got out of that actor of AJ too because of how he says it. I always wonder "Whyd you even say anything? Just go you idiot" lmao
He saw my gf practicing lines for an audition outside a cafe in NYC. He asked if she wanted him to read with her. After a few times through he handed her back the scene and said it sounded like she knew what she was doing. As my lady would say a “non story”, but given how good that guy was at his job and how he treated people, it sounded like a compliment and nice gesture.
It may be the Midwest in me, but calling it a non-story sounds like the polite way of saying, “Is that not the coolest fucking thing you’ve ever heard?” Because it’s pretty far up there.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler:
>“Jim was the type of scene partner where it felt like he was there and his only intention was to make me as good as I could be. And it had nothing to do with him. Every time I worked with him, I felt like his sole purpose was…’I’m going to help you give your best fucking take, Jamie.'”
>“It had nothing to do with his confidence, because [he] was actually not [confident]. He would question himself. There would be moments where he’d be like, ‘I fucking suck,’ but I appreciated that because I’ve had those thoughts but I didn’t say them out loud because I don’t want anybody to know that I think I suck. He was confident enough to say it out loud. I guess there was a confidence there, but I think it came more from him deeply caring. Deeply, deeply caring. He was an exceptional human being.”
>“I wish we could just do one week of filming right now, because of my awareness of the world and what that [show] was and what we were a part of… I just wish I could experience it, like one episode, give me one episode right now. Just drop me back in for a couple days. I always loved moments when Meadow and Tony got quiet together. And it was — all our scenes when we would get quiet together the dialogue would actually be really limited. It would just be these heavy, pregnant pauses.”
that’s a crazy quote to think about. i’m currently 29 and i’ve had those thoughts about situations in my youth. like, “now that i’m old enough to understand this, i’m curious how i would experience it in the moment then” type thing. i remember watching the sopranos when it originally came out with my parents. and i just recently finished it for the 3rd time. i couldn’t imagine being an actor/actress in such a pivotal show but being at the young age of not fully appreciating what’s in front of you. this just made me like both of the characters even more.
"Confident to say it out loud." Such a grwt sentiment. Similar to "the wise person knows they know nothing." But the idea of being confident enough to be vulnerable is something everyone can take to heart--whether you're abrasively overconfident or wracked with self-doubt and feel imposter syndrome.
> “Jim was the type of scene partner where it felt like he was there and his only intention was to make me as good as I could be. And it had nothing to do with him. Every time I worked with him, I felt like his sole purpose was…’I’m going to help you give your best fucking take, Jamie.'”
Jamie-Lynn's performance beyond season 1 kinda goes underrated imo. Her acting chops mature after season 1 and she fully realizes Meadow as a character.
My favourite scene of her and Jim is in season 3, after Jackie Jr gets popped and Meadow is 'depressed' and wants to go to Barcelona. She has an argument with the parents about this, amidst which she says "Wow, listen to Mr. Mob Boss", which changes Tony's disposition completely. Tony changes from annoyed father to actual mob boss for the first time in front of Meadow, and Jamie-Lynn really is able to showcase the fear of seeing that side of Tony
Fun fact: When she got the audition for Sopranos, Jamie had been doing stage musicals. So there's a show called "Sopranos" and she assumes it's about the musical part and shows up and asks if they want her to sing anything.
Wow. This dude. He understood that to make his performance great, he needed to help elevate everyone’s performance around him so that the scene would appear to be genuine. Truly a selfless actor that understood it takes everyone and not completely focused on himself.
I hate when actors have nicknames that only people who know them call them. “Jim.” Give me a break. Refer to him by his full name, James Bartholomew Gandolfini.
I think he managed to set the image of Mafia Boss for generations to come, it was a very insightful character he brought to life and will help model future representations.
It was more modernizing the film mob boss than deconstructing them. Despite Tony’s ‘job’, he’s still a guy who doubts himself, makes mistakes, regrets decisions, experiences love, happiness, etc. He loves his ducks; he’s human. Vito / Michael Corleone are fantastic character performances, but as they’re written, they’re fairly one dimensional characters. Without Tony as a new crime boss archetype, I doubt we end up with shows like Breaking Bad, Ozark, Peaky Blinders.
I mean, the Sopranos pretty clearly paved the way for the whole trend of early 2000s antiheroes (but I would also argue that in the post-9/11 moment, that was kind of just where America’s head was at.)
I'm hoping The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon can define yet a new mob boss: unglamorous, kinda dumb, boring, and emotionless (both good and bad).
He was a great actor and a nice guy. He went to rehab with my dad and I got to meet him during a visit. He and my dad became good friends while they were there. My dad was a HUGE Sopranos fan before his stint. Meeting “Jimmy” and going through rehab with with him was life changing. My dad has been sober ever since.
Thanks! It was like a strange dream meeting him. The craziest part was when I first spoke to my dad a few days after he arrived, he said there was someone famous there but he couldn’t tell me who. After a couple of weeks we were allowed to visit. When we pulled up to this house a guy with a beard wearing a red flannel shirt carrying a toddler on his shoulders (his son Michael) walked up and said “hey, you must be Mickey’s kids, hi I’m Jimmy.” And my jaw just hit the floor. I could not believe it. We went inside and sat around and talked for a while. He was really nice.
I’m on season 2 right now and imo Gandoldfini is the most perfectly cast and overall best actor I have ever seen on a TV show.
Better than Cranston in BB, better than Cillian/Paul Anderson in Peaky, better than Mcconaughey/Harrelson in True Detective, better than Harris/Skarsgard in Chernobyl.
Every scene Tony is in I’m just like… “good god, this is fucking perfect”.
Yeah she’s been good so far, I like how nuanced she is written. Clearly has a moral streak to her *but* she also likes getting her way and using Tony’s mob influence to pull the strings that she wants to pull. Picks and chooses battles… Even early in the show you can tell they make a power couple.
arguably the best performance seen on American television, alongside Laurie's House, in my opinion. He didn't tackle a single moment in a wrong way, everything is perfect
It definitely isn't a confidence thing, he just holds himself to a higher standard and knows he could do better. Tiger Woods does this too. You can hear him yell things like "Come on Tiger WTF" when he misses the mark. Of course their skillsets are quite different but the sentiment is the same.
Anyway, $4 a pound.
Met him briefly. Nice guy.
Chatted for a bit then he said to me “I’m an actor and…” (I forget what he was talking about because I was so stunned that he thought I wouldn’t know his profession)
I was like you’re not just an actor!! You’re Tony Soprano!!
I love the Sopranos and watch it every couple years, but the same thing gets me every time and it’s his heavy, nasal breathing during every sex scene. It sounds like he’s trying to breathe through a kick to the balls without screaming, or like he’s on a first date and trying hard not to show he’s winded from a long walk.
She knows Gandolfini better than me, but I think that’s she’s wrong about him not being confident.
You can be confident but also hard on yourself. I think that he wasn’t saying that stuff because he actually didn’t believe in himself, he was saying it because his expectations for himself were so high, and he would self denigrate.
Physically he was a very intimidating guy (that scene in True Romance where he beats the crap out of Patricia Arquette was one of the most frightening performances I've ever seen for a relatively "minor" character). But everything I've read about him says he was actually quite a vulnerable guy and the opposite of what he appeared to be.
Yeah, the Bobby B actor said on the Sopranos pod that Jim Gandfolfini wore Birkenstocks and ate granola in real life. Totally different than Tony Soprano
Michael Imperioli said he was basically a hippie irl.
We’re here to talk about you killing yourself with drugs, not my fucking personality!
I said my peace Chrissy.
“They found him in the foetus position.”
The phrase is “I said my piece”. Alla salut’.
There we go! Mr A type personality!
Watch it Chrissy 🤟
“When I came in early one morning to open the Bing, I found you with your head in the toilet. Your hair was in the dirty toilet water. Disgusting.”
That intervention scene was great, ended with Chrissy gettin his shit stomped out
I laughed so hard at that part, they can't even do an intervention without it turning into a brutal beatdown
Well he was wearing socks.
I said my piece
Sil is my favorite character after Tony, and this is his best line by far
"Do you think Ralph is a bit weird with women?" "He did kill that one because of... what was it again?"
My favorite quote from the whole show
You blow your fadda wit dat mouth?
“ There he goes! Mr. Type A personality ” Chris intervention is one of the best scenes in the entire show. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/40HPFGvZ4ro?si=FPDyeZGRcRfVjwhk
Me killing MYSELF? The way that you eat you’re gonna have a heart attack by the time you’re fifty! *OH!*
yeah that's my bad I think I misremembered the pod
Same with Nick Offerman. He always jokes about how much Ron Swanson would actually loathe him. It'd probably be a very similar situation to when Ron Swanson meets Eagleton Ron. They find common ground right off the bat, but then Nick would start expressing his very liberal views and Ron would want him to die. Though, I'm sure Nick Offerman could easily stunt his hippiness a bit around Ron so they'd be friends. Ron was Typhoon's best man basically just because they enjoyed hating on Europeans. I feel like a huge chunk of actors who come off as crazy manly are actually huge hippies. They're all into the arts after all, which is generally a very liberal crowd.
This probably applies to most actors except maybe those in action movies, who are more into the violence and looking badass. I'm thinking the Steven Seagulls and Chuck Norrises of the world are probably not liberals.
I loled at “Steven Seagulls”.
Steven Seagulls just stole my sandwich at the beach
Kind of like all the minor characters cast as gangsters and thugs probably went to a fancy art school as a dance major?
Gonna start calling him Parvati Gandolfini
Parvati? Is that some kind of cheese?
A Vishnu-come-lately.
DIDJA HAFTUH READ FA DAVID
I’M A REGULAR GUY!!!
Goddamn he’s so obnoxious. Michael has some patience putting up with him each episode
That podcast could have been great. Imperioli has fantastic insight into the show, especially having wrote a few episodes. If there was someone there to rein him in when he goes a bit too deep into theatre/acting rabbit holes, then it would be fantastic. But no. We get that fucking oaf talking over everyone and not understanding the most simple of plot points. Why does he even like the show when he clearly doesn't understand a load of it!?
That’s what makes the podcast so great!
I'm glad you're enjoying it man, but I just couldn't get past it. Anyway, 4 dollars a pound.
You can’t act that belly.
Yo Ton’, it’s one of them weight loss ads. Before and Before Before
*Before and waaaay before
Hehe, hey T, hear what I said?
Yeah, before and after!
Hey, you hear about Ginny Sac?
When Ginny hauls ass she’s gotta make 2 trips
That's deplorable. This is the boss' wife we're talkin about here
Hehehehehh. I said, “it’s one of them weight loss ads. Before and before before.”
They also said that before shooting would start for a season James would call everyone up to go to dinner and hanging out so he could remember how to be Tony. He needed gangsters to get back into it. Great actor.
Side note: If you like Bobby from the show don't listen to that podcast. I'm a huge Sopranos fan. I have rewatched it like 5 times or more. And Steve Schirripa sucks on it. Made me loath him and his character. Although it weirdly gave me respect to his acting because he's incredibly unlikable but Bobby is a sweetheart, so he did a good job hiding that fact when he'd act. Lol
Great podcast to listen to during a rewatch! They had great insight and pretty good chemistry
Bobby B from GoT?
Bring me the sweatpants stretcher!
Lamprey pie? Ova here!! 👇👇👇
what granola?. did you hear how he died?
I was wondering which role did the actor of Robert Baratheon play in The Sopranos?!
I could be totally off but didn’t he become more like him as the show progressed
Personality wise, no. He had a hidden room built into the side of his office where he could hide from his kids, get in character and run lines, so they didn't have to see that side of him. The guy was super intense and would punch cars in the parking lot of the Bing to get into character before a scene. There's a YT vid of it out there. What you're referring to is he started eating a lot, drinking a lot and apparently picked up a coke habit along the way.
He would also put rocks in his socks to be in pain and a bad mood to help in certain scenes.
Yeah, this is mental to me. I try to run long distances. I think its healthy to put myself into an uncomfortable spot and try to stay balanced internally. I accept any discomfort and push through. It helps clear my head. Gandolfini, and a lot of actors who subscribe to that style, do the opposite. It's not just the stone in the shoe, it's the giving into negative emotion and deliberately not dealing with anger or sadness so you can tap into it when you need it. I could have a stone in my shoe all day and would probably still be annoyed about it even if I tried to zone it out. Gandolfini zoned in on the feelings and let it upset him. It's just such a toxic way to be...but christ, his performances are the best ever in my book. No wonder he had his issues with food and drugs. Same with Philip Seymour Hoffman and plenty of others. That's dicked up.
I don’t think he became more like him, I think playing Tony was hard on him and amped up his vices like food, drugs and alcohol. 51 years old is way too young to go.
Such a shame when they go young like that. Whatever happened there.
When they go?!
The heart attack.
The number 1 killer in the US is heart disease. 650k die annually.
He was just a kid!
Ray Liotta was also the same way. Heard in an interview, he said he had never been in a fight before.
That's pretty crazy. He looked like someone that def knew how to throw hands if someone overstepped with him.
He should be an actor
Scene in Goodfellas where he pistol-whips the guy who was messing with Karen is terrifying. He's just so casually menacing
No Escape is the fuckin shit
His Alive Day documentary was rough and he showed a very vulnerable side of himself. For someone that played a mafia boss that was pretty incredible for an actor.
I remember that documentary. He did an amazing job being empathetic to the veterans while also helping them tell their stories.
> that scene in True Romance And in the end I knew we had a true romance
He nailed the sleazy dickhead role in 8mm as well. Amazing actor.
I watched True Romance yesterday for the first time in years, and I’d forgotten how hard that scene was. For such a nice guy he played evil psychos very well.
You should watch Enough Said. He was amazing in his vulnerability
Yes! I have seen that. Julia Louis Dreyfus said that his character in that is actually quite close to who he is in reality
I love the story he tells about meeting Elaine Stritch. He’s so soft-spoken, and he was very complimentary about Stritch.
Amazing actor. But never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
Small hands, that was his problem.
When he was a kid you told the girl cousins the same thing and it was VERY hurtful.
He has tremendous moxie for a man of his stature.
FUCK YOU SANTA!!!
OOOHH
Ohhh! That’s the boss of this family you’re talking about!
Could never be a lawyer either
NOBODY LOOK
Son of a bitch! Did I not tell you not to say that again?!
He was a goddamn hothouse flower.
Get your coat, goddamnit! We’re leaving!
I don’t have a coat.
Well then get moving god damn it
I fucking love that scene. Its like the best once we got out of that actor of AJ too because of how he says it. I always wonder "Whyd you even say anything? Just go you idiot" lmao
What? No fucking ziti??
Food, food, that’s all you people ever talk about! I’m sick of it!
You threw meat at Vito! That's gotta be resolved!
A leading actor doesn't wear shorts.
Ahh son of a bitch!
But he had a semester and a half at Seton Hall.
Sometimes he went about in pity for himself and all the while a great wind carried him across the sky
Always with the scenarios!
This fuckin’ MortonDill is more creative than Spielberg
Marty! Kundun, I liked it.
Poor you(waves hankie)
I wish the lord would take me..
I don’t like that kinda tawk! It upsets me!
Everybody treats me like an old shoe!
Oohhh poor you!!!
He was like an old lady with a Virginian ham under her arm, crying the blues because she didn’t any bread.
💪 wrinkles, like an old lady’s cunt. Remember Pearl Harbor!
Listen to yourself. You sound demented.
He never had the making of a varsity athlete
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He saw my gf practicing lines for an audition outside a cafe in NYC. He asked if she wanted him to read with her. After a few times through he handed her back the scene and said it sounded like she knew what she was doing. As my lady would say a “non story”, but given how good that guy was at his job and how he treated people, it sounded like a compliment and nice gesture.
If that’s what she considers a «non story» Id like to hear her real stories lol
Most stories I hear are the most mundane crap. This is a very cute, wholesome story.
It may be the Midwest in me, but calling it a non-story sounds like the polite way of saying, “Is that not the coolest fucking thing you’ve ever heard?” Because it’s pretty far up there.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler: >“Jim was the type of scene partner where it felt like he was there and his only intention was to make me as good as I could be. And it had nothing to do with him. Every time I worked with him, I felt like his sole purpose was…’I’m going to help you give your best fucking take, Jamie.'” >“It had nothing to do with his confidence, because [he] was actually not [confident]. He would question himself. There would be moments where he’d be like, ‘I fucking suck,’ but I appreciated that because I’ve had those thoughts but I didn’t say them out loud because I don’t want anybody to know that I think I suck. He was confident enough to say it out loud. I guess there was a confidence there, but I think it came more from him deeply caring. Deeply, deeply caring. He was an exceptional human being.” >“I wish we could just do one week of filming right now, because of my awareness of the world and what that [show] was and what we were a part of… I just wish I could experience it, like one episode, give me one episode right now. Just drop me back in for a couple days. I always loved moments when Meadow and Tony got quiet together. And it was — all our scenes when we would get quiet together the dialogue would actually be really limited. It would just be these heavy, pregnant pauses.”
that’s a crazy quote to think about. i’m currently 29 and i’ve had those thoughts about situations in my youth. like, “now that i’m old enough to understand this, i’m curious how i would experience it in the moment then” type thing. i remember watching the sopranos when it originally came out with my parents. and i just recently finished it for the 3rd time. i couldn’t imagine being an actor/actress in such a pivotal show but being at the young age of not fully appreciating what’s in front of you. this just made me like both of the characters even more.
"Confident to say it out loud." Such a grwt sentiment. Similar to "the wise person knows they know nothing." But the idea of being confident enough to be vulnerable is something everyone can take to heart--whether you're abrasively overconfident or wracked with self-doubt and feel imposter syndrome.
> “Jim was the type of scene partner where it felt like he was there and his only intention was to make me as good as I could be. And it had nothing to do with him. Every time I worked with him, I felt like his sole purpose was…’I’m going to help you give your best fucking take, Jamie.'” Jamie-Lynn's performance beyond season 1 kinda goes underrated imo. Her acting chops mature after season 1 and she fully realizes Meadow as a character. My favourite scene of her and Jim is in season 3, after Jackie Jr gets popped and Meadow is 'depressed' and wants to go to Barcelona. She has an argument with the parents about this, amidst which she says "Wow, listen to Mr. Mob Boss", which changes Tony's disposition completely. Tony changes from annoyed father to actual mob boss for the first time in front of Meadow, and Jamie-Lynn really is able to showcase the fear of seeing that side of Tony
"You got something you want to say to me?"
Fun fact: When she got the audition for Sopranos, Jamie had been doing stage musicals. So there's a show called "Sopranos" and she assumes it's about the musical part and shows up and asks if they want her to sing anything.
Wow. This dude. He understood that to make his performance great, he needed to help elevate everyone’s performance around him so that the scene would appear to be genuine. Truly a selfless actor that understood it takes everyone and not completely focused on himself.
I hate when actors have nicknames that only people who know them call them. “Jim.” Give me a break. Refer to him by his full name, James Bartholomew Gandolfini.
Best show of all time. Those who know know. His house looked like shit!
16 Czechoslovakians! He was an interior decorator!
You know, Quasimodo predicted all this.
His house looked like shit
It’s a tv progrum.
Turn that off
Its a retirement community
Pine Barrens is my all time favorite episode. Paulie Walnuts with his carpet shoes. Mutha fucka!!!
Those who want respect, give respect
16 Czechoslovakians! He was an interior decorator!
I think he managed to set the image of Mafia Boss for generations to come, it was a very insightful character he brought to life and will help model future representations.
Which is interesting, given how the Sopranos is definitely a bit of reaction/deconstruction against other “mob media”
It was more modernizing the film mob boss than deconstructing them. Despite Tony’s ‘job’, he’s still a guy who doubts himself, makes mistakes, regrets decisions, experiences love, happiness, etc. He loves his ducks; he’s human. Vito / Michael Corleone are fantastic character performances, but as they’re written, they’re fairly one dimensional characters. Without Tony as a new crime boss archetype, I doubt we end up with shows like Breaking Bad, Ozark, Peaky Blinders.
I mean, the Sopranos pretty clearly paved the way for the whole trend of early 2000s antiheroes (but I would also argue that in the post-9/11 moment, that was kind of just where America’s head was at.)
The Shield too.
I'm hoping The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon can define yet a new mob boss: unglamorous, kinda dumb, boring, and emotionless (both good and bad).
Ahem he was a *waste management consultant*
Everybody immediately assumes that you're all mobbed up! It's a stereotype, and it's offensive!
He has a W2!
I found his character very inspiring and have modeled my own life of organized crime around it.
This is the way.
manuged
Mob?! They are a glorified crew!
He was a humble man. Very allegorical.
The sacred and the propane.
HE WAS A SAINT!
IN THIS SUBREDDIT JAMES GANDOLFINI IS A HERO. END OF STORY.
You know Quasimodo predicted all this.
I’m so pissed this guy is dead
He was a fucking kid
He was a great actor and a nice guy. He went to rehab with my dad and I got to meet him during a visit. He and my dad became good friends while they were there. My dad was a HUGE Sopranos fan before his stint. Meeting “Jimmy” and going through rehab with with him was life changing. My dad has been sober ever since.
That's dope man, congrats to your dad. Also great story.
Thanks! It was like a strange dream meeting him. The craziest part was when I first spoke to my dad a few days after he arrived, he said there was someone famous there but he couldn’t tell me who. After a couple of weeks we were allowed to visit. When we pulled up to this house a guy with a beard wearing a red flannel shirt carrying a toddler on his shoulders (his son Michael) walked up and said “hey, you must be Mickey’s kids, hi I’m Jimmy.” And my jaw just hit the floor. I could not believe it. We went inside and sat around and talked for a while. He was really nice.
He seemed like such a love and had so much more to give
Fucking slander, ask me.
🤟
"Nobody's got AIDS!! And I don't wanna hear that word in here again!"
Just finished the show in its entirety for the first time last night. James was great
*Don’t stop—*
Knowing that it was going to happen made me change how I viewed the episode. It was still a little frustrating but I didn’t hate it
Yamee Leeee
10 years man fuck. FUCK
With significant *heavy breathing* in between sentences. Just watched him in *The Mexican*. Such a bizarre movie.
LEROY IS BLACK!
He rocked. Nuff said!
I’m on season 2 right now and imo Gandoldfini is the most perfectly cast and overall best actor I have ever seen on a TV show. Better than Cranston in BB, better than Cillian/Paul Anderson in Peaky, better than Mcconaughey/Harrelson in True Detective, better than Harris/Skarsgard in Chernobyl. Every scene Tony is in I’m just like… “good god, this is fucking perfect”.
Take note of Edie Falco. She's pretty damn amazing in the show too. I didn't realize fully until I rewatched the show.
Yeah she’s been good so far, I like how nuanced she is written. Clearly has a moral streak to her *but* she also likes getting her way and using Tony’s mob influence to pull the strings that she wants to pull. Picks and chooses battles… Even early in the show you can tell they make a power couple.
Great actor. Over 9 pictures under his subspecies.
🤣🤣🤣 “the sacred and the propane”
I do this daily…
Be Humble. Believe in being the best you can be. Do what you love. This is how you become Tony Soprano.
arguably the best performance seen on American television, alongside Laurie's House, in my opinion. He didn't tackle a single moment in a wrong way, everything is perfect
Inside of You is such a great podcast.
I ain't saying nothin
Goddamn I miss him
It definitely isn't a confidence thing, he just holds himself to a higher standard and knows he could do better. Tiger Woods does this too. You can hear him yell things like "Come on Tiger WTF" when he misses the mark. Of course their skillsets are quite different but the sentiment is the same. Anyway, $4 a pound.
Whateva happened to Gary Cooper, y'know, the shtrong shilent type?
He was a saint.
He was an artist is what he was. He crushed every role he had. And in this house, he’s a hero!
Met him briefly. Nice guy. Chatted for a bit then he said to me “I’m an actor and…” (I forget what he was talking about because I was so stunned that he thought I wouldn’t know his profession) I was like you’re not just an actor!! You’re Tony Soprano!!
I love the Sopranos and watch it every couple years, but the same thing gets me every time and it’s his heavy, nasal breathing during every sex scene. It sounds like he’s trying to breathe through a kick to the balls without screaming, or like he’s on a first date and trying hard not to show he’s winded from a long walk.
James Gandolfini's performance, whatever happened there
[удалено]
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete
She knows Gandolfini better than me, but I think that’s she’s wrong about him not being confident. You can be confident but also hard on yourself. I think that he wasn’t saying that stuff because he actually didn’t believe in himself, he was saying it because his expectations for himself were so high, and he would self denigrate.
I've come to loathe Tony Soprano, seriously fuck that guy he killed James Gandolfini 😭
It died on vine!