Michael Imperioli was fearful of being fired from “The Sopranos” from the beginning.
The 54-year-old actor, who performed Christopher Moltisanti on the HBO hit, uncared for to say that he couldn’t drive — very important info for a job the place he served as Tony Soprano’s (performed by the late James Gandolfini) someday driver.
“I didn’t inform them that as a result of I wished the job and in one of many takes I really again up right into a tree and smashed up the again of the Lexus,” he lately instructed Web page Six.
He continued: “All of us jumped ahead, the air luggage got here out, smoke, it was a giant catastrophe and I used to be considering [Gandolfini] have to be considering I’m an fool, that is going to be a catastrophe, they’re going to fireplace me.
“And he simply appears at me and begins cracking up laughing and we each simply broke down hysterically and I believed, ‘Okay that is going to be an excellent trip. That was a bonding second.”
Imperioli has teamed up with fellow “Sopranos” castmate Steve Schirripa, who performed Bobby Baccalieri, for “Speaking Sopranos”, a podcast the place the duo breakdown each episode of the lengthy working drama.
The podcast nearly didn’t occur due to coronavirus.
“About six months in the past we had been approached by a number of producer to do it,” defined Schirripa. However then the pandemic hit and the actors wished to bow out.
“We stated, ‘Man, who cares a couple of TV present when the world is falling aside?’ After which we began listening to from followers on social media that they want a diversion, they’re all re-watching ‘The Sopranos.’ HBO is displaying it free of charge so we stated, ‘Why not?’ And It’s been going nice,” stated Schirripa.
And as for that well-known remaining scene, each actors imagine that Tony wasn’t killed.
“At first I did,” Imperioli admitted. “I believed we had been seeing his perspective, the final moments earlier than he will get shot and killed however then I heard David [Chase, the show’s creator] discuss it.
“In a single dialogue he talked concerning the tune ‘Don’t Cease Believin” and the lyric is ‘The film by no means ends, it goes on and on and on.’ I believe the lyric is tied to the ending.
Schirripa by no means had any doubts.
“I believe Tony Soprano is alive and effectively, dwelling in New Jersey. What you noticed is what you noticed,” he stated.
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