He was already playing Tony Soprano on ‘The Sopranos’ and would ... "Every Friday night he would pay for this enormous banquet of sushi for the shooting crew. I remember every Friday night ...

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

The Sopranos Creator David Chase Had 1 Concern About James Gandolfini Before Casting Him as Tony Soprano “He’d be walking through the hallways, arriving to set, and the robe is blowing ...

By McKinley Franklin David Chase wasn’t initially sold on James Gandolfini playing Tony Soprano in The Sopranos because he thought he wasn’t “threatening enough.” In an excerpt from Jason ...

A new book on the life and career of James Gandolfini, the man best known for bringing Tony Soprano to life and helping to usher in a golden age of prestige television, contains at least one ...

The "Sopranos" creator was hesitant to cast the actor in the HBO series' lead role. In an excerpt published by Vulture of Jason Bailey’s book “Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend ...

More than 25 years later, it seems impossible to imagine anyone other than James Gandolfini in the role of Tony Soprano. But The Sopranos creator David Chase was initially worried the actor wasn ...

There was far more to James Gandolfini's Tony Soprano than met the eye. In a new book about the late actor written by Jason Bailey, GANDOLFINI: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, his castmates ...