‘The Sopranos’ Cast Reunites For 20th Anniversary: Full Interview | TODAY

we need a moment because I'm big boys not here and I loved him so much and I think we should say a little prayer a little moment for our Jimmy yeah absolutely god bless you Jimmy he's here with me yeah thank you so much I love you all [Laughter] okay so this is what we're gonna do you just you have to indulge me for one second all I need you to do is look into the camera say your name and say what character you played hi I'm Lorraine Bracco I played big thank you very much I'm Katherine I do Chi and I play charming bucco John Ventimiglia play Arthur bucco beautiful Dominic in Asia I play Corrado soprano jr. Vincent Pastore I played sob bump and CRO but you could call me Maureen Vance and I played Gabriella Dante I'm Tony Sirico and I played Paulie walnuts you've got that they feel the advantage Michael Imperioli I played Christopher Moltisanti Edie Falco I played Carmela jamie-lynn Sigler I played Meadow Soprano I'm Robert Euler I played AJ soprano have you all been together at all in the last five six seven ten plus years really is the first 20-year reunion so we wait don't remind me 20 years here's my question who of you show of hands knew from the get-go that this was going to be as big a show as it turned out to be one two three four why did you think because I asked David what was going on because they hadn't committed to making the show and they had a very short period of time to to do that and I called David I said what's going on and he said listen I'm gonna send you the pilot I watched the pilot and I literally jumped for joy I said this is the best thing I've seen in five years TV movie theater whatever I absolutely think it's it's fantastic right right but we had other people with who didn't raise their hands Edie you're working on it on the on the show you're working away did you think this thing had any chance at all I never know what I had come to know is that I don't know anything I had been wrong so many times about things I thought were great that nobody else could care less about so I just you know you hope for the best but all you know is you have three weeks of work and then you move on so that's where I was at one day at a time one day at a time mmm-hmm Michael how about you you know I read the pilot you can't really tell from reading the pilot this is before we shot it the scope of what it would be you know I wasn't sure if it was a spoof like kind of like a you know tongue-in-cheek I really did not I wasn't particularly blown away by it I needed a job at the time I thought David hated me in the audition David she looked so bored looks so bored yeah and then I walked out I figured I didn't get it and I was like well he's not even Italian this che see some white guys turns out he is it out turns out he is it right that's his face and he's not why I have any story about that please after we filmed the pilot I don't know if you remember this David Chase took me and Johnny V on the side and he said look I don't know if anybody's gonna want this thing and if it gets picked up but if it does I would love to have you to come back do you remember that mm-hmm he sat us down it was 20 years ago I know but I remember a little bit I remember I thought it was great I didn't think it was gonna be this big but I thought it was great when I read the pilot but that was the conversation we've had and his David chases our thoughts on it were pretty funny to me no he did he said I remember him saying that no one's ever gonna watch this thing write it with me on the phone and they said he was doing a pilot and we had worked together on Northern Exposure and he had this pilot he wanted me to do if I was available I happened to be and they looked that week on your butt between sitcoms and he said you're gonna love it it's called The Sopranos I said I'd love to do it I gotta warn you in advance I don't sing you've never told that story before the the idea that did you know what it was because from the standpoint when you look at it it's a family show it's kind of funny it's unbelievably violent it's crazy also I mean there's parts of it that like throw away kind of non sequitur it's it's a lot of stuff going on on that screen at any given time right what did it feel like to be a part of the cast I remember in the beginning as soon as I had been auditioning for like stuff for probably five years or something and I remember it was my first TV show I remember going home and my mom everybody was like oh your god to be sure you gonna be famous and then we were on set doing the pilot and I said that I guess and Tony Sirico said listen you do these things all the time this is gonna be nothing we'll probably never see each other again then so then I have to go back and break the news to my family but then you know Tony talked about it because what this was not your first rodeo no it wasn't my buddy buddy but I'd killed before [Music] number two when date when I went in to initially audition for David he looked at me he said there we go sit there and he put a hat on me and he the lines were these kids today I said is that how you want to see since me I didn't when you wanted yeah anyway I'm playing an 80 year old man cuz I put the hat back on these kids today hmm dad had next two three I get a phone call HBO is deciding on three of us me Frankie Vincent may rest in peace and and Dominic we all had our turn at bat we did the routine I did the same thing I did all I could for this type of character I'm playing an 80 year old man these kids today that's what I said everybody went I got a phone call an hour later from David chase hutongs me he says I said and exists egg yeah you got some bad news you're not you're not playing that character I said Uncle John uncle Johnny thank you he says but he says I got something in mind for you hey I'm not sure Lee I want you on the show I haven't decided what you're gonna do who you gonna be I said yeah okay sure I hung up I don't know if he was pulling my pretzel or he was an hour later he calls me up and he says you are Paulie walnuts aren't you run the show that's how I got on the show I wasn't learning lines I just showed up and got that yeah every now and then now my then don't hurt nobody there was quality in the script in the original script that he wrote added no domina Dominic carullo is it the old man oh so he created Paulie walnuts for you yeah he told me I'm Paulie walnuts and there you are I loved it the boss was telling me that it's beautiful that I know yeah my agent called me up said you they want you on the show you're gonna be Artie bucco the chef I said the chef as a chef what is ever okay I mean you know it's a mobster show you want to be a mobster yeah I want to be a cool guy you know right to be the cool right we all came out of independent film so we'd meet each other at auditions we're all going in a lot of the same things and you know you're going in on that you never expected anything to do too much but you loved what you were doing in who you were doing it with him that's what this ended up in a way it could have been on network I guess if a network wanted it but it ended up wearing it and and we ended up being kind of like an ensemble in a way not expecting too much but like him what would we do but no way no how this show ever goes on Network told no no not with it's not the magic is gone the tone the tone of the show it could have never flown on network television come on we all have to give credit to Georgia and so what's the famous quote it's John Huston or John Ford one of those old directors said 90% of directing casting John Huston said somebody like that but they were true but this whole thing is I'm why I've watched a bunch of episodes then just in the last couple of days sod all the first time saw it again five years ago then watched a bunch of episodes over the last couple days NBC doesn't keep me very busy they but the point being I felt like every single person in every single spot was spot on and you ever worked in an ensemble like that where you felt like he doesn't miss she doesn't miss she doesn't miss everybody everybody hit it it seemed like every scene and anyone anybody worked in a show like that before me and Michael me and Michael leg and in in the snow we did magic what lines we took that to you my rant of a line that should have been humored right and and it was funnier that way sure the guy's dead you're talking about that you're talking about the pine there is no other part to be honest with you I love this show I die this is this is the way I want to die in the show buried in the snow it's the greatest episode I also think chemistry of all of us I think I could say we all got along I don't think anybody had a bad thing to say about another actor that's this big that's what's rare and what you'll never find on another show there was no jealousy everybody was loved each other and was for each other that's what I think even cursing right out yet that's the reality of it that the beauty of it Domenic know when I audition I wasn't sure there was a junior so it was you know BOTS because my sister know we're gonna kill your son my nephew I thought this guy's crazy I don't know what he was doing and he started laughing I said maybe it's a comedy I I like you said I just had a feeling I wanted the job real badly right as you're playing uncle junior yes sir did you just get the line did you say this is my guy I'm delivering the lines I don't because you had some of the best lines in the show yes yeah wait for the reading in the boss I know Jersey [Laughter] so made him great so what what was your favorite scene was one of my favorite I think I just love the show one of my favorites was when I had no teeth and he was saying you're the boss the judge a nice isn't it that's nice that I like playing that old do you watch the show do you ever watch the show i watch once in a while they watch it yeah yeah how about cuz you get killed you'll get killed in the end of season two Yeah right we all cried when and did did you think oh my god I'm on the best ride of my life and they're gonna kill me now no cuz David called me between season one and season two and he promised me a great season and he said Vinny will bring you back in some flashbacks and I wouldn't be sitting here if he didn't create the character a big and that's history so I'm very happy that was able to be with these people for those two years yeah you know and work with Jimmy right yeah you you people don't have any idea how great it was to work with James Gandolfini he was the best he would say you want another take you want her to take nobody does that mMmmm cuz he's in there with you yeah you know he could have gone to his trailer he could've went to his trailer he could have said no right you got two takes that's it but Jimmy would say how do you feel and he would turn to whoever his directing said Benny needs another take yeah that was Jimmy same thing I have a sense you want to talk about mr. Gandolfini I can talk about anything you want to talk about yeah Jimmy was as I've said a thousand times you know you do a scene with Jimmy again with Feeny you walk away a better actor you know this is the greatest acting school one could imagine and the reason why everybody got along so well and the reason why this show is I think unique was because it was one man's vision which is not the way TV works you know not the way anything Hollywood works you know it's all committees right you know and you know they give you notes on every single line you do right coming from the studio executives this was all one man's vision which is why he picked everybody you hand-picked every every cast member and either wrote or rewrote every single script I mean it was his you know when he was directing movies I was playing a priest for him well he I directed it times the baby and everything I directly Lillehammer episode not to a whole nother show Michael talk to me about scenes you did with James Gandolfini because people see you in that role on that show and you were more than just the nephew your connection to Jimmy's character was much more profound than that I mean we were we became very good friends you know and and knew each other really we you know you know really well you know we knew about each other's lives and we knew you know what our lives were like before this show and I think the thing is when you really trust somebody as an actor when you know you're in it together when you know that that person has your back like he said you want another take you do another take and you know that that when you have that level of trust then you can really make magic I think you know because you you you you freeze you as an artist as an actor you know you don't you're not inhibited so you'll take chances and you're willing to be vulnerable or you're willing to expose you know things that are uncomfortable in front of the camera you know was when there's tension then you close down but when you when you have that trust and um you know he gave that to me and to all of us and and we gave it to him you know and we were there for each other do you have a favorite moment on screen with him I do you can say you know so we have to throw Joey's Joey pants his body off the cliff so we rehearsed the scene before the Sun went down on this cliff and the state and then they're gonna light the whole park you took ours so we we had to wait for the Sun go down and we went in the trailer with Mitch Burgess the rider and I had a drink which was a full bottle of Wild Turkey which by the time was ready to shoot the bottle was empty so they had to chain me and Jim's ankles to trees they were afraid we're gonna fall off the cliff for the cover they did it great though they had it coming on then they covered it with leaves [Music] [Laughter] there were people down I forget it was Phil was down in a boat with a raincoat the camera was just hilarious and surreal but I don't recommend that a lot of fun yeah I think I think I think the book the you know the lead guy of a show I think sets the tone and I think Jimmy was always a character actor in his head you know he didn't come to the show with like that leading man you know diva thing you know he came with that like I'm just one of the guys and he you know he'd always say to me look in the mirror look at this guy talking about himself you know he had that attitude all the time so I think that helped the vibe we're all in it together thing he had a lot of humility when he did that movie where he played Leon Panetta and he met him at the premiere you say he went up to and said I'm sorry he's joking but he's not joke because he was very humble guy yeah really ingenuity do you want to pick one scene to say that's it's me and Jimmy at our best it's so funny I mean people talk about Jim you know and I bring up his name to me and stuff and I don't you know it's something it is I have my Pat answers about yes he was great I really miss him whatever but I don't think about it in a in a present sort of way and fortunately it's impossible not to in these circumstances and it's really intense it's far more intense than I had realized this being being all of us being together in the alchemy of these individuals however many years ago it was it's very unusual that he's not here and I I don't often feel his absence the way I do right now it's pretty surprisingly uncomfortable that said for some reason the first thing that comes to mind is there was a scene where he and I were in a I don't remember when it was or anything but a lawn chair in the backyard by the pool and it wasn't much of a scene we didn't really say much it was a it was a tender but what Sopranos asking that it wasn't like loving or it was just very sort of a day in the life of a long-term couple right I just remember thinking how can this feel as complete as it does as real as it does one I don't really know this guy in reality because unlike Michael Jim and I were not particularly close I really didn't know much about his personal life just what you know the rest of the world knew right nor he about mine so when we were together and I looked at that face he really was just Tony you know every space in my brain was just this husband and what we do is very strange because it's not pretend but it's not becoming another person obviously cuz that's I guess psychosis at that point but it's some weird place in between but there was something about that scene in particular where I thought holy crap I don't know if it yeah I also don't know who's gonna watch this or if anyone else will be affected by this the way I am but and I don't know that I actually ever saw the scene but I remember shooting it in the backyard on these two lawn chairs and we sat there next to each other and he said a thing or two or I don't know okay so you know what that means 86 hours of stuff we have to look through tonight this yes some of the greatest acting movies TV and the - oh that's so you're in the summer house but there are its when you realize that for the umpteenth time he's lied to you so much but this is about girlfriend 1 and girlfriend well girlfriend 13 and right right a 6 and 67 and you just you come here's this moment where it seems like oh my gosh here's this new chapter in our life we're gonna get this beach house and then you find out he's been still been lying huh it's unbelievable really it's just I'm just getting this Wow he punches the wall I mean he had a moment that's what I don't think he was supposed to punch the wall man memory was that that's when you confessed about fury oh yeah yeah thank you and that you the other day that was amazing the work you guys did that scene was amazing thank you you have a favorite what is your favorite of all all the scenes you did with your dad or episode do you have a favorite that you did with with Jim well you know when the show started for me I hadn't done much I was 16 years old and um had only done theater and being on a film set and being around these amazing people I was so intimidated and felt like I didn't belong and I think when we did the college episode was like the first time that I really had a lot of one-on-one time with him and a lot of heavy dialogue and a lot of scenes and I remember him saying to me just he could tell I was nervous and he said just look in my eyes and trust me and it was everything and I've taken that with me just in my life but also like talking about the person that he was off set I can tell you on behalf of Robert and I think I can speak for you that he he kept his distance as respect to us because trying to respect us as little individuals you know I was part of this cast because we were the kids for so long but the way that he would check up on us behind the scenes that we found out later between like our reps or my parents or anything like that I'm just the care he felt and the responsibility he felt to make sure we were okay you don't find very often it's really special you watching out for you yeah that's huge yeah did you feel that yeah yeah I found out later on that he would call my manager what is he paying for rent like even questions like that like just to make sure I'm not being an idiot and staying in some penthouse somewhere and being dumb and and and then he would tell him don't tell him I called you know right I don't he didn't want the credit for it he just wanted to know he wanted to like I I think he actually slept better at night knowing that we were okay which is crazy he was the greatest how do you account for that that's just wild talk to me about scenes you shot you sit how many feet apart 1012 feet apart never know seriously I mean there were moments when you're sitting there and you're watching this guy across from you that everybody says basically was a singular singular talent yes he was a singular talent he was I think Jimmy was a great actor man what was like what was that like for you to be on the other side of that I found myself sometimes because what happened was Jimmy would want to do he had a lot of very long soliloquies basically monologues with me and he would ask the camera department and sound Department he didn't want to cut he wanted to be able to just go through it and and sometimes I found myself just watching him like like I wasn't in the scene like I'm like oh my god this is magical oh my line oh my god yeah how does that make you feel [Laughter] sometimes it was incredible but he was also a pain in my and when he would finish his four or five page mine along he would be so happy when the cameras would turn around but he would like strip and day crazy like hello and he would be like they would you know what happened is is you know lots of times how Jimmy would work in the in in our offices that the cameras would be blocked off the cameras would only be seeing me and not him doing his you know striptease right so I'd be like yo hello don't don't do do I have to do and and everybody would be like oh come on Lorraine not fair I've got a bunch of stuff to go here but I what people seem to be obsessed with is the last episode this is so interesting this was your job for that many years and it's you walk away from that the audience is it still stays very very present for the audience it seems because when I said yeah well we're going to interview some of the cast from Sopranos it was so it's like popcorn all the ideas that are coming at me flying at me let me go all the way in the back when people talk to you about the last episode what do they say most of them think that Tony and the entire family were killed right I think people want to think that because I think they want to think something really dramatic happened and I always saw it as life just went on you know it went gray went black and their life could have gone on forever but there was always that sort of specter of could happen mm-hmm so I chose to think that it just it was thing does it matter a moment in their lives having dinner and cut and that's it that's it but people like to make very dramatic well the music is playing don't stop believing in the background right what did you shooting the scene did you know it stuck did you know he was going to cut it where he cut it I never knew what was going on that's the truth I really I didn't and I didn't know what it meant if it meant anything and I was just so grateful to be a part of it in any way yeah one of the things I loved most about this job is that I didn't feel like I had to know the larger arc of these people what the story was about yeah the capital a because I had such immense trust almost like a great parent in the people at the helm David primarily David Chase to know what this was about so I I didn't understand the ending it's exactly like Maureen said it life goes on but we're just not privy to it anymore as audience members and how many people have said to me no no I get that active what actually happened you know like well that I can't tell you that's what I thought their cat pulled the plug out of the wall that's right that's where it went so none of us knew where the ending was yeah it was over that's right didn't nobody do that I killed the cat I wasn't even there the day that you guys are killed yeah that's right no choice well did okay so you're out there trying to park your frigging car by the way it's very hard to park badly I will say that make sure you're a good parallel court very good does it do people stop stop you on the street still make time yeah yeah big time I'll forever be this generation right so if someone stops you on the street do they say Jamie or do they say really I had to stand yeah right yeah you know kind of fried who said what I get when I get stopped because I was such you did it well I hate it but I couldn't right I wanted to love my husband but I couldn't I mean Tony yeah all right so here's the question then was being on the show in aggregate for each individual a blessing or a curse because for anyone else what's that how could one look at this as anything but a blessing regardless of what you may think about you know your career after this as an actor as a person you don't get this usually ever certainly yeah I felt and I feel that just a part of a cultural moment whether or not we knew that at the time I certainly didn't but in retrospect I mean you can die and say you were a part of this show that people talked about for a long time you know very satisfying you know you know it gave the the scenes gave you places to go and places to reach for and things to dig up you know as challenging as an actor it was fun as an actor it was very rewarding and very rich when the scripts came out no matter who you were actor Rigg Teamster everybody sat down and read that script and that was the genius of David Wow yes sir also life is suffering pain and joy and he wrote from pain David yes David's life was painful and so he created great out of it so it's both it's a blessing and a curse since my gun was a lot of pain came out of the right was a great writer he's a great writer yeah and he also checks confessed to us that he knew the ending he said he knew the ending when he started he was gonna end it that way really yes Wow in advance yeah your confession again I just thinking what the suffering part like when I sit when I first went down to read you know I read the script and I'm talking to David and I said listen this is a terrific script I said you know what tell your truth I don't think anybody's gonna buy this mother thing you know I mean I'm gonna tell you I grew up an Italian family I got nothing but Italian friends you know and I said to some weather you know I never know who's gonna believe this Italian mother you know that's my mother right there I didn't get the job you know this is gonna be a crazy show and and I and I thought to myself this cannot how's this gonna succeed you know I mean no one's ever seen an Italian mother like this right you know and it was I just caught David at the right moment when he was in his rebellious mode okay he was leaving TV in his mind I hated television yeah he was hoping that bill wouldn't pick up the show so we could add a couple things and make it a movie right right well yes as buddy but he was in this rebellious mood so he did everything wrong you know too many characters too many subplots the camera never moves you know I remember trying to talk him into adding a few more songs to a pilot I'm like David the kid should give us to give us a little something here something to seduce it people a little bit because you know the cinematography was very very in arc very very almost almost like a documentary cinema verite a Timeship yeah very similar they open anyway you know there was nothing pretty or seductive or about the above the show right he refused to compromise completely you know amazing amounts of silence in terms of music I mean where it's just dialogue long takes just act Li say it started again you almost have to make the people uncomfortable I think the music can like almost like relax you a little bit or tell you what to feel or tell you where to go with your emotions and I think to really force an audience to sit there and observe and feel is powerful and courageous very very gutsy without question well I'm I cut you off a second I was just gonna say like Sopranos --is might be the only relationship in my whole life where I look back and I can't find a bad memory like I just smile everything I think about makes me laugh and I don't know if it's selective and but but I just I don't but every every single thing I think of is really a psychiatrist everything I look back it's it's just it's all smiles and happy and then like we were talking the other day about when we used to go to the Emmys and this like I don't know how many awards II won I don't even remember which times we won we lost I just knew like oh we were all going and we were all going to hang out and then you would see like oh there are the people from this show and there are the people from this show and some of the people from this show over here some of them over here and it would be like where the Sopranos was like in that corner oh you gather everyone nobody was going around and schmoozing and this and trying to find it it was just we were all together and we were laughing and we were having the best win like you couldn't tell if that was a table guys who just lost or won or that our first Emmy is in a bus that says New Jersey Transit or by all of us together and we lost best show and we all walked out oh you didn't stay do you know do you really lost him West Wing West Wing West Wing or the practice I remember one time when they said and the winner for Best Actor is James and we all stood up and went crazy and it was who was there James and we all I mean it was it was crazy how big the show was we didn't realize cuz we all on the bubble in New York like you said you didn't realize good bad what we were doing nobody had a scope of what was going on and when we got to the Emmys the first time with the SAG Awards whatever is a big award show that we all got on a plane together and when we got to the award show I'll never forget when we got out of the car I remember seeing Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston and all these big people I've never been to an award show before and they wanted to meet us and I went home this show was great to them and I remember they were all staring at us and we were the cool kids they toned myself and Jimmy to go up and present Best Comedy something and Jimmy didn't want to say anything so he left the dialogue between Tony and myself and then Jimmy said like one word you know and then we won that all that night so we were up there twice it was a great night for all of us right the SAG Awards yeah it's a night like this bittersweet yeah yes yeah someone from the show there's like this invisible Jim bubble around us and like Vanna I feel like every hug is a little longer and it's it's it's definitely different and he's very very miss we have a connection very weird is very sad it's really insane yeah so happy like this but we groups of us keep like I stay in touch with Vinnie and I've seen Lorraine and Jamie and I on Instagram I'm like I think everybody has their little thing I see Johnny and everybody wants him well but not as one group why don't you see me mean you wish when we travel together you he had me in stitches do you have a favorite scene that you did we said the one with had no teeth right talk to me about working with James Oh Jimmy has an activist so quick I remember that when he on the golf course when he insulted me when what did I do I mean he took the golf club when he won do you like sushi on I mean he had a great do things everybody cracked up accepting my character wouldn't give away the secrets I could crack up but I felt like cracking guy's a genius right to take a golf club and make such a wonderful image from that remember that you were there and also cancer was left there was a little laughing at me he was great and then he made me cry when he said I can't even say it history said don't you love me shall we it's more sweet than bitter mmm-hmm this is an embarrassment of riches I honestly just as a personal experience to be able to sit with you all and hear your own voices talk about what this experience was like for you I'm so glad we didn't do it live because I feel like we got a lot here we got we really got a lot here and I've got goosebumps sitting here because I feel like talking about Jimmy please you know I was very very nervous about you know taking the job and I said that David chase I said listen you know now that it's real I said I feel very weird about taking an actor's job um this is your first acting job yes I'm coming from rock and roll I said I don't really want you know these people go to acting school and they you know my wife's the real actor in the family and she I watched her go to school for years and off-off Broadway and off-broadway and I'm like you know I don't want to take an actor's job he says okay well David chase says you know III will write you in a part so you're not taking everybody's job right which is what he did right he wrote it in you know so and then and I wasn't sure you know people accept me or what's gonna happen on the set because at that age even at that age I was not ready for any kind of controversial going to work problems you know mm-hmm I mean you want it to be a family and I'm coming for whoa and music is a little bit more of a family thing than act the acting world in general you know where things can get a little bit competitive in the acting world you know we find so we hear yeah except on this show thank God so Jimmy you know immediately set the tone of like he had respect for what I had done in my previous you know my other life you know which is and it's just set the tone for the entire cast I think in the entire show history immediately accept me as another factor you know yeah and I was just such a miracle right next door you know couldn't went a different way yeah I mean and I think Jimmy set that tone all when you were part of the cast when we sitting around reading a table man we had a little Stephen from the E Street Band on The Sopranos wow that's cool Dominic what's on your mind I was thinking that David understood different talents and and he asked he asked Stevie to to take me to the studio and he got the song out of me see I thought when you go into a recording studio being a crooner on my life I thought you had to be sweet and you had to sing purely and Steve was and saying give it to me give it to me and it came out right because I wasn't expert at that recording and Steve he knows recording and that was important to me you know I never I think I thank you that when you sang at my house David thank you daddy yeah yeah you said what is this an alignment he said what does that line mean and a year later he put it into the show but I mean he was interested in the in the tenth of the song yeah we got the birthday when you did it on the show why are you saying it was your birthday was it yeah yeah one second Jamie woman why I was just saying I was just thinking something off of what Stevie said and back to the blessing of the curse I think the experience will always be a blessing but the only curse I think especially you know having it be my first experience the curse is that it's not always going to be like this I mean the way it's set up it's probably life for me in this business but I think now being 37 and a mother and having different perspective and just you know it used to feel like frustrating that I wasn't getting what I had been used to and now I can sit here and be like even if I don't I got that and that is the greatest gift ever gotcha man so David Chase is making a prequel to the show anybody gonna be on the prequel that we know or can save 20 30 years before us a Benjamin Button ISA Rico's De Niro promise me I miss when I just messed it about me I think we got it I think we got it thank you so just let me just finish my thank you thank you so much and thank you for coming and being open and coming to play I really really appreciate it thank you so much yeah [Applause] you you

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[u/benny86]

Dominic Chianese looks great for 87.

[u/darthjewbacca1138]

Nice to see them all again, but I was really missing Drea, Aida, and Steve Schrippa.

[u/Narrenmischpoke]

Somehow it feels strange to me that some of the cast members apparently don't know/remember much about the actual end product of their work. I mean they have all these funny and interesting anecdotes but Edie Falco doesn't remember "Whitecaps"? It's not only one of the greatest episodes but also shows specifically HER best and most intense moments as an actress.

[u/optimistiks_]

The way Tony Sirico forgot Dominic Chianese character name twice in a row got me worried. Let's hope he's alright though.

"Just take your medicine, Uncle Paulie. Makes you feel better. Helps with your memory."

[u/dixonyo]

Silvio wouldn’t approve of Steven Van Zandt’s outfit

[u/indiesnobs]

When Dominic Chianese was talking about making him cry when Tony asked Don't you love me?, I broke down and lost my shit. I cried the first time I watched that scene, and in this setting, it made me cry even more. It did so because I was thinking how I didn't watch The Sopranos as it was airing, I just finished it for the first time in 2017. So for me, Gandolfini's passing was sad but I didn't see much of his acting. So as I watching this and thinking about how it all of a sudden really hit me that Gandolfini is dead, Edie Falco talks about how much more she felt his absence doing this reunion talk. It just yeah, it's hard to describe.

[u/Iceman705]

Artie maybe needs to get more sleep, a man needs his 7 hours.

[u/mrpauliewalnuts]

Lol at Edie's reaction when Michael says her and Gandolfini's performance in Whitecaps is one of the greatest acting performances ever @21:50

[u/Daedeluss]

A bit annoying that an interview with the cast of the SOPRANOS is censored.....