Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBada bing!HBO Max is letting anyone in the U.S. watch Season 1 of groundbreaking Jersey crime drama “The Sopranos” — for free in the app — for a limited time.
06.09.2021 - 16:11 / justjared.com
Leslie Odom, Jr. was pretty much in the dark over his audition for The Many Saints of Newark.
In a new interview, the 40-year-old actor opened up about not knowing the project was the Sopranos‘ prequel movie, nor anything about the character, either.
“I’d heard that the film was happening. I wasn’t up for it in the original rounds of auditions,” Leslie revealed to Rolling Stone. “But there came a point where they needed someone quickly, and I got the call.”
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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBada bing!HBO Max is letting anyone in the U.S. watch Season 1 of groundbreaking Jersey crime drama “The Sopranos” — for free in the app — for a limited time.
Michael Appler “I’m not coming back to ‘The Sopranos,’” Aida Turtorro, the two-time Emmy nominee for her role as Janice Soprano in the iconic HBO series, said Wednesday on the red carpet for the show’s long-awaited prequel movie, “The Many Saints of Newark.” “The truth is,” she said, “I’m not sure I ever left.”Inside the film’s world premiere—where the Beacon Theatre in New York City overflowed with guests, including Edie Falco, Steve Buscemi, Steven Van Zandt and cast members Michael
The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints Of Newark, has revealed that he did not know that he was auditioning for the film.The Hamilton star was not considered for the first round of auditions for his role in the film, and when he was approached, details of the project were kept strictly under wraps.“They didn’t send me a script, but they were sending notes,” Odom Jr. told NME.
He’s part of a new generation poised to take over, along with Corrado “Junior” (Corey Stoll) and Johnny Soprano (Jon Bernthal). They clash with Harold McBrayer (Leslie Odom Jr.), a black gangster who works for Dickie but has his own grander aspirations.
Leslie Odom Jr wears a suit with a lot of hands on it while arriving at the premiere of The Many Saints of Newark held at Beacon Theatre on Wednesday night (September 22) in New York City.
TheWrap: The problem with the modern lust for origin stories is that audiences supposedly want everything explained to them, but just look online — you will see ecstatic comment threads questioning and dissecting every complex moment and line reading in practically every scene of “The Sopranos.” The art that lasts is the art that stimulates people to ask questions.
What is it that compels people to sin and give themselves continuous self-inflicted pain? This is one of the central questions raised in the otherwise largely incurious “The Many Saints Of Newark,” David Chase’s prequel film to his “Sopranos” series on HBO.
NME Monday that Falco was among those who came in to film a scene that could have opened the film, but the scene ended up cut from the finished movie. “Yes, not to give away too much but, when you make a movie you’re not exactly sure the final shape it’s going to be and we, believe it or not, shot a few things that included other cast members,” Taylor said.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn its heyday, there was an ad campaign for “The Sopranos” that played, in an obvious but irresistible way, off the word “family.” The show was about Tony Soprano and his tempestuous suburban family, and it was also, of course, about that other family: the Mafia. When it comes to television, though, there is always an additional meaning to family.
riot tonight,” says the girlfriend of numbers runner Harold (Leslie Odom Jr.), right before the Newark riots of 1967 start. Worse than this is the scene where baby Christopher cries whenever he sees his uncle Tony and an older female family member says the infant might know something they don’t.The new characters are all one-dimensional, and we learn nothing new about the old characters from the series.
Tony Soprano may or may not be dead, but unfortunately James Gandolfini is, so to continue The Sopranos saga, creator David Chase has flipped back the calendar to craft something of an origins story for America’s favorite crime family in The Many Saints Of Newark. Set for domestic release while wedded to a simultaneous HBO Max bow on October 1, the Warner Bros/New Line film has its world premiere on September 22 at the Tribeca Fall Preview at New York’s Beacon Theater.
Edie Falco will not be appearing in the upcoming “Sopranos” prequel movie after a scene she shot for the film was cut.
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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaLeslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald will split emceeing duties for the Tony Awards and the special celebration of all things Broadway that will accompany the annual handing out of statues.
How did Tony Soprano become the man we met in “The Sopranos?” That’s a question that is going to partially be answered in the upcoming film, “The Many Saints of Newark.” READ MORE: Fall 2021 Movie Preview: 60+ Must-See Films As seen in the trailer for “The Many Saints of Newark,” the film serves as a prequel to HBO’s “The Sopranos” and shows a young Anthony Soprano as he grows up in one of the most tumultuous times in Newark’s history, as crime families fight over control.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaA decade ago, Alessandro Nivola made a consequential decision. He wasn’t going to hold out for the showiest roles in movies that might struggle to get distribution or recognition.
EXCLUSIVE: Call it an offer he couldn’t refuse. After The Sopranos creator David Chase told Deadline in today’s interview that he would be interested in doing another film about the formative years of Tony Soprano — as long as it meant reuniting with longtime series writer and executive producer Terence Winter, Deadline reached out to Winter, who said: “The idea of doing another one, and doing it with David, I’d be in in a heartbeat. Absolutely.”