Back in 2019, on the 20th anniversary of ‘The Sopranos,’ the late Tony Sirico joined Deadline for a special retrospective of the hit HBO series with creator David Chase and other cast members. Take a look:
: Oh, yes. I said don’t even give them to me, I don’t want to even read them. Not interested.: When Chase locked you in, how long did it take to work out the complicated relationship with Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano? Did you know him?on Broadway, with Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin, and I remember during intermission going through the playbill to find the name of that actor because I loved what he was doing. He was charismatic. He had energy. He was like a big bear. He took over.
I didn’t have a script, only sides, and one was a scene with Meadow, talking with Carmela about wanting to go on a ski trip with her friend Hunter. I was well-versed in arguing with my mother about wanting to do things that she wasn’t going to let me do, that it wasn’t a far stretch. When I went for my callback with David Chase I remember saying, you guys need to hear me sing. I don’t see an accompanist, so I can sing acapella for you if you want.
David would come around, and talk to me, and ask me questions, tell me that he really was enjoying my little tiny bit of work on the show. And every script, there was more dialogue. I was sitting in my little honey wagon, still a day player so my room was a toilet with a pillow over it, a 2×2 room. Episode 12, I was on every other page. We didn’t have cell phones back then. So I ran to a pay phone, and I called my mother, and I said, you’re not going to fu*king believe this.
Jeff Bewkes, who was CEO of HBO at the time I was head of original programming, came to my house to watch the pilot. After, he said, “It’s good, but can he make them all this good?” I said, “I think this guy’s the real deal and he’s got a real vision for this. It can get better.” When David handed me the script he had rewritten from his Fox version he said, “I think there might be too much therapist in it.
And while we were contemplating doing it, I was great friends with Billy Crystal, a former client of mine. We were on the phone and I said, “what are you doing?” He said, “I’m really excited about this movie script we just handed in that I co-wrote with Peter Tolan.” I go, what’s it about? He says, “I play a psychiatrist for a Mafia don.” I said, “no, come on, you’re kidding me.
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