James Gandolfini talks Tony Soprano's anger

your character is remarkable I mean even when you're not being violent is this does violence it seems like it's gonna burst out any second to what extent we are you responsible for that into what extent did David Chase create the character a little bit of both I mean I have a little bit of a temper but it's you know a useless temper doesn't accomplish anything generally it's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing but so David probably saw that and put it into the character I'm not Tony Soprano by any means you know it's an exaggeration of everything but there are seeds there which do so after four or five years neuroses one reason people you know are good at certain characters there for a long time is because the writers see stuff and they put it in and it makes life easier for you you know he's not gonna have me I don't know what sing or something you know what I mean there's certain things that are in my nature and he'll I think he'll write certain things like that but he also stretches the character all the characters and challenges everybody and everybody steps up

Channel: 60 Minutes

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Keywords: 60 Minutes, CBS News, James Gandolfini, The Sopranos, HBO, Bob Simon, Mafia

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Length: 1min 1sec (61 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 10 2019