Nobody pressures Tony Soprano into doing things against his will. “The Sopranos” actors Steve Schirripa and Michael Imperioli appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast this week to promote their own “Talking Sopranos” podcast series and revealed that Harvey Weinstein once angered James Gandolfini so much that the Tony Soprano actor threatened to “beat the fuck” out of the now-disgraced movie producer and convicted rapist.
Gandolfini and Weinstein’s paths crossed during the marketing push for Andrew Dominik’s 2012 neo-noir crime thriller “Killing Them Softly,” which starred “The Sopranos” favorite opposite Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, and Ray Liotta. The Weinstein Company was the film’s distributor. Gandolfini was staunchly opposed to doing talk show interviews throughout his career because he felt he wasn’t “interesting enough,” but that rule did not fly with Weinstein. One day Schirripa and Gandolfini were on the “Killing Them Softly” set when Weinstein kept calling the...
Gandolfini and Weinstein’s paths crossed during the marketing push for Andrew Dominik’s 2012 neo-noir crime thriller “Killing Them Softly,” which starred “The Sopranos” favorite opposite Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, and Ray Liotta. The Weinstein Company was the film’s distributor. Gandolfini was staunchly opposed to doing talk show interviews throughout his career because he felt he wasn’t “interesting enough,” but that rule did not fly with Weinstein. One day Schirripa and Gandolfini were on the “Killing Them Softly” set when Weinstein kept calling the...
- 6/18/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Thompson on Hollywood
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