The tension between James Gandolfini, the actor, and Tony Soprano, the character, was often hard for the star to live with, ...

Robert Iler, Stven Van Zandt and Lorraine Bracco shared new reflections on the late James Gandolfini and their time with him ...

James Gandolfini wasn't well known when he landed the part of Tony Soprano on the HBO series "The Sopranos," and the show's creator David Chase wasn't completely sold on the casting when the actor's ...

Diving headfirst into the show several years after his father passed was a unique experience for the rising actor, and one he ... SEALs who inspired the film. Gandolfini calls the film ...

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano is widely regarded as an example of perfect casting, making it impossible for fans of The Sopranos to imagine any other actor in the role. However, series creator ...

which seeks to reclaim the actor from his greatest role. Depending on where or when you met Gandolfini, he was James, Jamie, Jimmy, even Bucky. Our biographer settles on Jim, a name to encompass ...

Bracco previously recalled Gandolfini’s reaction to the ending in the 2024 documentary Wise Guy: David Chase And The Sopranos, and said the actor was likely “in shock like everybody else”.

The Sopranos creator David Chase recently opened up about the casting process and revealed he had some hesitation with selecting James Gandolfini ... too. The actor’s manager Nancy Sanders ...

More than 25 years later, it seems impossible to imagine anyone other than James Gandolfini in the role ... Although the actor worried Chase was “going to be a pain in the a—” after inviting ...

Sopranos creator David Chase had one question when James ... Gandolfini play heavies,” Jaffe said, “and this father was this hippie who was very different, but I thought he was a good actor.