Alec Baldwinonce did what he could to try to play the guy who killsJames Gandolfini’sSopranoscharacter, Tony Soprano.
During an appearance on Michael Imperioli andSteve Schirripa’sTalking Sopranospodcast on Monday, Baldwin opened up to the series alums about the lengths he went to in attempt to land a role on the HBO series.
“I called up whoever it was, I forget, and I said, ‘Tell them, when it’s time to kill Jimmy, tell them’ — this was early, before you get to the end — ‘there’s only one man in this business who should come in, whack Jimmy, and ride off with [his on-screen wife]Edie [Falco], and I am that man,'” recalled Baldwin, 63. “I am the guy who needs to blow Jimmy away and take Edie, who I’m madly in love with, away.”
“And they were like, ‘Sure, great. We’ll add your name to the list of all the Irish actors who think that they should be onThe Sopranos,'” he joked.
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Baldwin, aSopranossuperfan, also discussed why he believes the acclaimed series had such a lasting impact. “The Sopranosbecomes one of the shows where it’s like a band, you know what I mean? Everybody’s servicing the same goal. There’s shows where people come on and the individual cast members are very bright and shiny and everything works. In sitcoms, they’re very funny and there might not be a need for them to be in service of the same thing,” he said.
The30 Rockalum added that the series became “one of those shows where you’re like, ‘Who do I got to sleep with to get a part on The Sopranos? I want to be on that show!'”
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“When you said there was an end point, you don’t mean Tony at Holsten’s [the diner], you just meant, ‘I think I have two more years’ worth of stories left in me?“The Sopranos Sessionsco-author Alan Sepinwall asked in an interview for the 2019 book, to which Chase replied, “Yes, I think I had that death scene around two years before the end … But we didn’t do that.”
As co-author Matt Zoller Seitz pointed out that Chase “just referred to that as a death scene,” the series creator replied: “F— you guys.”
The Sopranosran for six seasons on HBO from 1999 to 2007. This September, Gandolfini’s son,Michael Gandolfini, is set to take on his late father’s role as Tony ina prequel film titledThe Many Saints of Newark.
source: people.com
