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Best known for his role as mob boss Tony Soprano in the HBO crime drama series "The Sopranos," James Gandolfini is one of the most beloved and innovative American performers of all time. His death shocked the world, especially the entertainment industry, but his popularity continues to grow nearly a decade since his passing.

Sopranos cast member Steve Van Zandt has recalled how the late James Gandolfini gave cast members a share of a pay rise he received while on the show.Ganolfini, who played mob boss Tony Soprano in the long-running HBO show, had received a “big” pay rise according to Van Zandt and decided to share it among his fellow cast members.When asked about whether or not Gandolfini “gave each actor [in] The Sopranos $33,000 of his own money”, Van Zandt confirmed that he did – though not to settle a “salary dispute” as had been reported previously.Replying to the fan, Van Zandt said: “It wasn’t to settle a salary dispute. He had gotten a big raise and just divided it among the cast.

prequel, “The Many Saints of Newark,” the mystery behind Tony’s fate has been chipped away at — and it’s much more subtle than “Saw” meeting “The Godfather.”Falco revealed on Chuck D’s New York Knicks podcast that an alternate ending to the show was filmed with her and Gandolfini in 2010 in an effort to attract LeBron James to play in Madison Square Garden — even though she didn’t know who he was. Similar to the end of “Goodfellas,” it depicted Tony’s life in witness protection, likely thanks to the symbiotic relationship he had established with federal agent Dwight Harris (Matt Servitto).

prequel, “The Many Saints of Newark,” the mystery behind Tony’s fate has been chipped away at — and it’s much more subtle than “Saw” meeting “The Godfather.”Falco revealed on Chuck D’s New York Knicks podcast that an alternate ending to the show was filmed with her and Gandolfini in 2010 in an effort to attract LeBron James to play in Madison Square Garden — even though she didn’t know who he was. Similar to the end of “Goodfellas,” it depicted Tony’s life in witness protection, likely thanks to the symbiotic relationship he had established with federal agent Dwight Harris (Matt Servitto).

When Jamie-Lynn Sigler and her “Sopranos” sibling Robert Iler reunited for a Super Bowl commercial earlier this year, fans suddenly began wondering about the possibility of a reboot of the mob hit, featuring Meadow and A.J. Soprano.

The Sopranos.The Hamilton creator appeared as a hotel employee in the 15th episode of the sixth season, who crosses paths with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and Paulie Gualtieri (Tony Sirico) during their road trip from New Jersey to Florida.Speaking about his experience on the show in Judd Apatow’s new book Sicker In The Head: More Conversations About Life And Comedy, Miranda explained how he was intimidated by the small role.“I went on lots of voiceover auditions and acting auditions, and the only thing I booked was The Sopranos, as a bellboy; I say, ‘I don’t know’ twice,” Miranda said.“I’m so green you can see me look down at my mark. Watch it if you get a chance, because now people are like ‘Lin-Manuel’s cameo on The Sopranos!’ It wasn’t a cameo.

“Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda had a blink-and-you’ll miss it role on “The Sopranos”. Now the Tony-winner, 42, is speaking out about his experience working alongside the late James Gandolfini on the HBO mob series. “He was never locked up in this trailer,” Miranda said of Gandolfini in Judd Apatow’s new book, “Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy.”“He [Gandolfini] was just out, and people would talk to him,” Miranda added, noting the actor’s kindness.

(CNN)"The Sopranos" went off the air in 2007, but people are still debating the ending.Which is one of the reasons why people were happy to see Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who played Meadow Soprano on the drama, recreate the show's opening credits sequence in a Super Bowl ad.The actress is seen in the commercial for the first all-electric Chevy Silverado driving the path the late James Gandolfini did as her character's father, Tony Soprano, in the series.Gandolfini died of a heart attack in 2013. He was 51. Sigler told People magazine Gandolfini's "presence was very much felt throughout it all, of course, because anything we ever do having to do with Sopranos, he is there.""And just the thought of that opening sequence with him, it's so iconic," she said.

gotten whacked by show creator David Chase, one HBO executive said.HBO and HBO Max Chief Content Officer Casey Bloys spoke to Deadline about the future of the “Sopranos” universe, which is sure to bum out fans from the Garden State all the way down to Boca Raton.“I don’t think David has any interest in doing anything more with ‘The Sopranos.’ ‘The Sopranos’ is a terrific and classic show. I don’t think there’s any reason to open that back up,” Bloys said.“I really don’t know what he’s thinking but one thing I can say is I just don’t think anything with ‘The Sopranos’ family is on the cards.”For months fans hoped that Chase — who inked a five-year production deal with HBO’s parent company WarnerMedia in October — was signing on to expand on the show as a follow-up to the luke-warm received “Many Saints of Newark.” The prequel film starred Alessandro Nivola as “Dickie” Moltisanti, Jon Bernthal as “Johnny Boy” Soprano and James Gandolfini’s son Michael as a high school-aged Tony Soprano.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler is sharing how she celebrated "The Sopranos" commercial that aired during the 2022 Super Bowl. The star, who played Meadow Soprano on the show that ran from 1999 to 2007, helped Chevrolet recreate the opening sequence to "The Sopranos" to tout its all-electric Chevy Silverado.  In the ad, Sigler is seen in the driver’s seat instead of the Sopranos patriarch played by the late James Gandolfini. After the commercial ran, the 40-year-old actress took to her Instagram Story.  Jamie-Lynn Sigler is sharing how she celebrated ‘The Sopranos’ commercial which aired during the 2022 Super Bowl.

From a thrilling late touchdown drive that gave the Rams a 23-20 win over the Bengals, to Eminem taking a knee and Meadow Soprano driving an electric Chevy, here’s what happened Sunday at Super Bowl 56.HERE’S WHY THE RAMS WON THE SUPER BOWL: Down 20-16, the Rams went on a 15-play drive capped by Matthew Stafford’s 1-yard touchdown pass to Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp for the go-ahead score with 1:25 left.Kupp’s touchdown catch came after three costly penalties on the Bengals’ defense.After both teams were flagged only twice in the first 58 minutes, the Bengals were called for penalties on three consecutive plays.Read more on the key penalties on the game-winning drive.HERE’S HOW ADS MIXED CELEBRITIES AND NOSTALGIA : Advertisers shelled out up to $7 million for 30-seconds during the Super Bowl, and they used their time to try to entertain with humor, star power and nostalgia.T-Mobile reunited “Scrubs” stars Zach Braff and Donald Faison, while Verizon recreated the 1996 movie “The Cable Guy” to tout its high-speed 5G network.And Chevrolet recreated the opening sequence to “The Sopranos” to tout its all-electric Chevy Silverado.This time, however, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who played Meadow Soprano on the show that ran from 1999 to 2007, is in the driver’s seat instead of the Sopranos patriarch played by the late James Gandolfini.HERE’S WHO PERFORMED AT HALFTIME: 50 Cent made a surprise upside-down entrance at the Super Bowl halftime show, and Eminem dramatically took a knee.Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J.

HBO series The Sopranos, which ran for six seasons between the late 1990s and mid-’00s.In the new advert for the Chevy Silverado, Sigler drives the car from New York to New Jersey – just as the late James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano) does in the show’s opening credits. The iconic Sopranos theme song, Alabama 3’s ‘Woke Up This Morning’, also plays during the ad.The advert then ends with Sigler driving through famous spots from the set of The Sopranos before parking up at an electric car charging point, then meeting Iler on the street and embracing.Watch the advert below.Other adverts to air during the Super Bowl last night (February 13) include the epic first trailer for The Lord Of The Rings: Rings Of Power, the record-breaking new TV show from Amazon Prime Video.Elsewhere, new footage from Marvel’s Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness was also shared in an ad.

in the 60-second commercial, which aired during the second quarter of Sunday evening’s game. “The Sopranos” showrunner David Chase directed the ambitious ad, which recreates the iconic opening of the original show and rewrites its famously ambiguous final episode. In the original series, the opening credit sequence sees protagonist Tony Soprano driving his Chevy Suburban from Manhattan to New Jersey as the song “Woke Up This Morning” by Alabama 3 plays in the background.

Reunited and it feels so good! The Super Bowl is known for its buzzy commercials that star an array of celebrities, and this year, Chevrolet brought the OG Sopranos siblings back together.

The Sopranos, which ran from 1999-2007, but no time like the present, right? The actor revisited the iconic series in a new Super Bowl ad for Chevrolet's electric 2024 Silverado EV, which aired on Sunday, February 13. The commercial was a modern recreation of the show' s opening credit sequence, which involved Tony Soprano (played by James Gandolfini) driving from Manhattan to New Jersey in a Chevy Suburban.This time, was behind the wheel. At the end of the spot, she's seen reuniting with her Sopranos costar Robert Iler, who played A.J.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJamie-Lynn Sigler has been keeping a secret for weeks. On Sunday, it finally came out.Sigler, who played Meadow Soprano for more than eight years on the iconic HBO series “The Sopranos,” stepped into the role again Sunday for a Chevrolet commercial that aired during NBC’s telecast of Super Bowl LVI. The ad updated, shot for shot, the show’s opening montage, which used to feature James Gandolfini’s  Tony Soprano driving a Chevy truck.

The Sopranos, citing exhaustion from inhabiting a character’s emotions for so long.The Better Call Saul star, who reprises his role as Saul Goodman for the Breaking Bad spinoff’s sixth and final series this year, made the remarks in a new interview.He told The New York Times that he’s ready to part ways his character, admitting that it’s “challenging” to let go of a role he’s portrayed over a decade.“I always used to scoff and roll my eyes at actors who say, ‘It’s so hard.’ Really? It can’t be,” Odenkirk told the publication of taking on a dramatic role.“[But] the truth is that you use your emotions, and you use your memories, you use your hurt feelings and losses, and you manipulate them, dig into them, dwell on them. A normal adult doesn’t walk around doing that, going, ‘What was the worst feeling of abandonment I’ve had in my life? Let me just gaze at that for the next week and a half, because that’s going to fuel me.'”Odenkirk added: “It gave me great sympathy for someone like James Gandolfini, who talked about how he couldn’t wait to be done with that character, and I think Bryan [Cranston] said similar things: ‘I can’t wait to leave this guy behind.’ I finally related to that attitude.”Despite his wishes to move on, Odenkirk said that Better Call Saul has “been the biggest thing” in his life.“It’s emotional to say goodbye to it, and to all these people I’ve been working with for so many years,” he said.

The Sopranos, Goldee, has died.A statement on Twitter confirmed that Goldee had passed away at the age of 23 at a farm in Warwick, New York, last Saturday (February 5).The horse had been diagnosed with Equine Cushing’s disease four years ago, which is a chronic disease of the pituitary gland.Goldee featured in the hit HBO drama – also set in New Jersey, where she was born in 1999 – as a race horse called Pie-O-My, who died during a barn fire in the show’s fourth season.Tony Soprano believes that the fire was caused by Pie-O-My’s owner Ralphie, in order to receive an insurance pay-out. Before the horse died, Soprano commissioned a panting of himself with Pie-O-My, but after the tragic events he wants it to be destroyed.Pie O my (Goldee)Past away this morning after a 4 yr struggle with Equine Cushing's disease.

Cory Finley’s feature adaptation of National Book Award winner Landscape With Invisible Hand has added Clifton Collins Jr. (Nightmare Alley, Jockey), Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark), Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade) and Brooklynn Mackenzie (Truth Be Told).

Angelique Jackson Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton & Brooklynn MacKinzie have joined the cast of Cory Finley’s “Landscape With Invisible Hand.”The quartet join previously announced stars Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish and Kylie Rogers in the film adaptation from MGM, Plan B Entertainment & Annapurna Pictures.Based on National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s novel of the same name, “Landscape With Invisible Hand” is described as a “heightened comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future.”Production on the film begins the week, marking writer-director Finley’s third movie, following the critically-acclaimed “Thoroughbreds” and “Bad Education.” Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing the project with Annapurna’s Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle.

“Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers.”Landress explained to author James Andrew Miller that the scene in question was being filmed in New York City. She noticed something was wrong when her crew came rushing outside of the venue to find her.“I walk across Sixth Avenue, and I see our trucks in front of this little old conservative Italian funeral home where we were shooting,” Landress said.

“Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers,” outlines that Gandolfini signed a contract that would pay him $5 million per season. HBO doubled his salary after the third season aired in 2001.However, the “Enough Said” star and his team repeatedly asked for higher compensation after that and even went so far as to file a breach of contract lawsuit in Los L.A.

Edie Falco is opening up about why she’s unable to watch The Sopranos anymore.

The Sopranos actor Edie Falco has said that she had to stop rewatching the iconic show because it was “too shocking” to her.Falco played Carmela Soprano, wife to James Gandolfini’s Tony, throughout the show’s six seasons.The show wrapped in 2007, and Gandolfini passed away in 2013 at the age of 51 from a heart attack.Falco admitted that she had begun to rewatch the show recently with her friend Aida Turturro, who played Janice Soprano on the show, but couldn’t make it past the fourth

HBO, the channel that famously housed The Sopranos, have opened up about their past concerns for James Gandolfini’s health.The show’s star would occasionally “go on a bender” and stop production according to the HBO’s former CEO Jeff Bewkes, who shared his experiences from working on the show in a new book about the network.“We were concerned about Gandolfini staying alive. Occasionally he would go on a bender or a coke binge.

Gallery: These stars have famous parents you didn’t know about (Espresso) Elsewhere in the chat, Falco discussed her home life growing up on Long Island, New York, where she was the second of four children to two creative parents. "There was very little about my upbringing that was conventional.

HBO executives feared for "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini’s health on set. The claim was made in a new book titled "Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers" written by journalist James Andrew Miller.

behind the scenes at HBO is shedding some light on “Sopranos” star James Gandolfini’s health.“Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers,” written by journalist James Andrew Miller, dishes all the dirt on the iconic cable network.

mob TV series’ core legacy.However, the Brooklyn native, 67, wasn’t too keen on her character’s “abrupt” departure in the last episode, “The Blue Comet,” before the show’s finale.Dr. Melfi’s final moment is at a dinner party during which a study that claims sociopaths take advantage of talk therapy comes up in conversation.

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The Sopranos writer Todd Kessler has revealed that James Gandolfini took him out for dinner after he was fired from the HBO series.Speaking to Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa for their new oral history on the drama, titled Woke Up This Morning (via Insider), Kessler recalled how Gandolfini contacted him when he was dropped from the show by creator David Chase after season three.“Jim called me up after he finished work that day,” Kessler said of the day he was fired.

ring!One of the most iconic “The Sopranos” lines — “‘A don never wears shorts” — allegedly came from a spooky, mysterious phone call that was anonymously made to series star James Gandolfini, an exchange that noticeably “disturbed” the late New Jersey actor.Michael Imperioli detailed the frightening moment in his new book, “Woke Up This Morning” (co-written by Steve Schirripa), and described the call as so scary that it would leave even the toughest mafioso trembling.“The story goes like this:

Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa reveal in their new book “Woke Up This Morning,” that the boss intervened to change a nude scene for an uncomfortable guest actor who was “caught off guard” by the bare plan.Peter Riegert, who played Assemblyman Ron Zellman, told the duo that Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano was originally supposed to beat “the living s – – t” out of the crooked politician while he was naked in Season 4’s episode “Watching Too Much Television.”“In the scene description, it’s

The Sopranos who was uncomfortable about filming a nude scene, according to a new oral history of the show.Actor Peter Riegert had a guest appearance as character Ronald Zellman in seasons three and four of the HBO series.

A24 has acquired all U.S. rights and will theatrically release Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy “Beth and Don,” the distributor announced Friday.

has given his audience everything and nothing at the same time.“The Sopranos” and “Many Saints of Newark” creator revealed a cryptic tidbit that gives the show’s blackout ending and fate of James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano in 2007 a bit more context — but you’ll still have to draw your own conclusions.Speaking with the Hollywood Reporter, Chase confirmed that the show’s iconic Holsten’s last supper was separate from a plan he originally envisioned for the boss’ demise.“Because the [death] scene I