James Gandolfini Tribute to a Friend (Subtitulado Castellano)

he was a searcher really he was looking for something he didn't have I don't think he knew how valuable he was to other people how much what he did for them mattered he was a good man he just happened to be a brilliant brilliant actor he just made you feel like things were gonna be okay if he was around he just did Jimmy had that combination of being very down to earth and also larger-than-life you did a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini and you walked away a better actor it was a reluctant a reluctant star he was so grateful for his good luck for his chance to do something for people you can't go out and saying we lost Tony Soprano we don't lose Tony Soprano we lost James Gandolfini whatever the opposite of [ __ ] is that's what I think Jim Gannon Feeny was searching for all right well we have our breaking news now fine we can confirm the death of James Gandolfini the actor best known of course for his role in The Sopranos as Tony Soprano HBO is confirming that he died while on vacation I was taking a nap then a friend came up to my rooms get a wake up got wake up Jimmy handle Feeney died and I wasn't entirely sure I was awake I didn't know what had happened I didn't couldn't make sense of it I couldn't believe it I refuse to believe it I died yeah you all told you this it just it didn't make sense to me um I somehow was under the mistaken impression that this guy was indestructible you know that I just sat on that chair for days you know and it was better what phone calls trying to hopefully find out it was a rumor well it wasn't well you know your time has come and you sorrow for what you've done you should never then play with a gun a most complications the first time I actually met him I I you know he came in to read as one of the actors that came in to read and you know we basically just shook hands and he sat down and he he read and then he bolted in the middle of it he left he said I this isn't doing I'm not doing this right this is not good after he finally read the whole thing all the way through it was pretty clear that he was the guy mr. soprano oh yeah it had been cast already and they said it was this guy Jim Gandolfini you get no money I wanna give a [ __ ] I guess I first met him at the first read-through we became a family from that day from the first read-through and then we went from there we shot the pilot in August of 1997 it was great everybody had a nice time and felt that they were working on something really good but in this business a lot of times when you feel like you're working on something really good that's usually what means that like nobody's ever gonna see it I did not think would be a big thing not in the least oddly I had much more confidence than David or anybody else did including Jim I think they were fairly pessimistic about the show I did this greenie in my friends game and you know I've done this before with people and I could see this people really responding to it they were laughing a lot more than I thought they would and um I began to think then we had something but I never thought it would succeed with you know in the way that it did I never had that dream that notion that inkling anything you gave a [ __ ] cousin Cartier dinner rings and you give me a vibrating chair he was exciting to work with he had a great effect it was a energy or something that came from him oh my you gotta stop you gotta stop with this this black poison cloud all the time cuz I can't take it anymore oh poor you we really laughed our fool heads off on that set he and Nancy Marshawn this is going back to the beginning would make each other laugh I mean she was a ferociously funny woman oh god what what this funny all my greatest memories involve all of us being out of control laughing then Jim was always at the heart of it why fake um what the dumb one working on that show was like walking down the street and hanging out on the corner with your friends it was like that every day there was a scene that was in the third season when he calls me to go and help him and I come in with the hunting outfit the Pine Barrens episode she called Bobby he's on his way and he said you know you better know how to make me laugh tomorrow morning cuz you know he had a for I had a walk-in with his hunting outfit which he had ready seen and I had to be funny so I told the prop guy I said listen uh do you have any dildos you know and he found me the biggest dildo look like an Italian bread and when I come into that room which is the scene you see I'm off camera and you see Jim basically fall older laughing on the counter you could almost catch da man Daisy crack a smile that was a funny scene we had a lot of laughs that day he'll bust my balls they bust my balls remember telling a bunch of reporters one time this guy holds up the show and the show is if to show his greatness because James Gandolfini and everybody in the cast understood what I meant doing a show like that do you know how much work it is for him for a lead on any of these shows these people work there in it all the time and I never saw anyone worked so hard at each scene analyzing it working on it how the hard work came something transcendent doesn't look like hard work it looks like magic maybe she little [ __ ] a she where is she in those moments when you're going you're going all the way going all the way I'm gonna empty ourselves no please though maybe even like after looking it do it ah yeah good dude I'm gonna take care of it he did that all the time he made you do it all right made you want to do it like a sculptor works in marble his raw material was emotion and he was just really good with working with it he did things with a bike he could play the same with his eyes and you know exactly what the hell his character was going through you got eyes like that you know there's something special burning inside the defining emotion I guess about him or about his eyes was kind of sadness that's why when he laughed it was mild it was so powerful I don't think anybody else could have played Tony Soprano and made him that character I mean it's so much of who Jim was was Tony Tony Soprano had all the best qualities of Jimmy and it's why we loved him so much by the time I was there I think there was a frustration about what kind of person Jim was and what kind of person Tony was that's a lot of pressure everything you do on screen sticks to you and even though he was beloved he was cruel and brutal and you know I'm talking about Tony and Jim was not like that I think it was hard for Jim sometimes to UM go to dark places I loved you what happens I decided you know [ __ ] this [ __ ] Turner thing doesn't work okay okay cut it this was really really deeply emotional and sometimes deeply disturbing and you really had to get in touch with a part of yourself that you know if you did not feel the words you were saying yeah it just wasn't gonna work what happens I decide not you now you don't love me anymore that breaks my heart but it's too [ __ ] bad cuz you're gonna love me but you will respect me Tony Soprano had a very very very dark side and somehow or other good boy Jimmy Gandolfini was able to fill those shoes I had so much respect for for the way he worked you sure my head was down here was it up here the freedom that he had as an actor was a constant source of inspiration for me and something I still aim for yeah okay sorry let's do a little more time and where's my hand Falls that's life Jimmy and Edie made everybody better both of them were extraordinary and two different totally two different styles of working Jimmy would argue about everything and I don't know this doesn't work and why is he saying that I'm gonna eat he can then had it all memorized never any discussion just did it and yet look at look at how well matched they sing sometimes you get to work two hours earlier you know you have to sit around for two hours and where'd he go I'm not gonna sit in my camper by myself I'm gonna go watch Jim and Edie film the scene and I felt like I was in the greatest acting class of all time they came to work and they did their job and they had this thing called chemistry the last year I have been dreaming and fantasizing and in love with Furio every morning when he'd come to pick you up I would look forward to it all night long in bed next to you it's a very strange alchemy that goes on when you work with somebody that closely for that long it was one scene that took place on chairs by a pool I guess in our backyard and it wasn't about anything the scene was a nothin scene and David didn't want us to look at each other so we were just looking straight ahead and talking about nothing I remember ending that day of shooting and thinking you will never be this good again you know with an actor but this writing with a storyline with a marriage you know with a relationship stick I was funny I hadn't thought about it till the second Oh poppy poppy Oh poppy he want to make sure that the love got spread around I guess that's what I would say yeah Jimmy was kind of a leader in a way I think we all took our cues from him this is a family this is a team this is not about who's a star whatever there was no egos going around we were so lucky to go to work and he made it feel that way from the top Jim set the tone for the entire spirit of the cast and crew from the first moment gave me up the utmost respect not being an actor at the time you know I'm concerned what are these actors gonna think of me at all coming out of the show I'm a [ __ ] rock and roll guitar player you know me more you know what am I doing here in the first place right well Jimmy gave me that complete respect though everybody on the set did your [ __ ] wig is huge today mr. Gandolfini had a very warped sense of humor one day I came to this set to come to work and I was passing his trailer and he's always called me Brock oh hey Brock oh I left your present in your trailer and I was like oh thank you how nice how lovely of you wow thanks Jimmy and I got to my trailer and there was this big box and I said well it's not jewelry and it's not flowers what the hell could it be hmm excuse me a second yeah he gave me this lovely [ __ ] I have had the pleasure of mr. cockadoodledoo for many many years and it is probably the most horrible ugliest thing I've ever received in my whole life and the Emmy goes to James Gandolfini Japan to the crew of The Sopranos and the cast and the writers but the crew who worked so hard and put up with so much um - my son Michael I promised I would do this we were always laughing we took a trip to San Francisco we stopped at a red light and this is so my dad he gets out of the car starts dancing right on the street I was laughing so hard and he ran back in the car we went during the green light Jim was really great at laughing at the absurdity of life especially when the show really became so popular he became so popular and he had a way of just kind of diffusing the importance of that and just looking at the absurdity of hey know your short interview with you but Cynthia for HBO oh I know you know what I feel like Jesus just sat down on the mountain with me thank you oh really they know disappoint you quickly don't worry there was something about Jamie that was extremely humble I think the fame of publicity was not that important we'd be in the bathroom and he'd be like at the urinal and people were coming up to him at the urinal wanted to shake his hand I honestly one time Jim was really freaked out we were in West Virginia and some guy took off his shirt he had a tattoo of Jim's face on his back he had tattoo a gym and a tattoo of Scarface Al Pacino and that really he went that really freaks me out guys got my face on his back I think he may have secretly enjoyed getting good reservations at restaurants or something there and being able to help people cuz I know he did that a lot you know if somebody was sick he was able to get them the best doctors and he just do things and that's that's where he was if he thought that he could be helpful then he just did it that man T was accepting his success you know and that's really the best part of accepting one's success because now you get a chance to use it and it does have its uses oh yeah thank you we both came from the same generation which the men in our families fought in world war two when we were always very proud of that service and Jim wanted to do whatever he could well happen the cable machine I was doing like crunches with the weight in it broke hey Jim you got smacked in the back I figured you look kind of silly you know that yeah Ross thank you how you doing man how are you he could go over there and just talk to the soldiers and in talking to them and talking them like a friend they felt important they felt wanted they felt respected hey we're gonna do paparazzi kind of like one day I get a call he says what do you think about Iraq three weeks later we were saying a load of the troops tony sirico and and jim Gandolfini we came all the way we were the type of guys I wanted to go up front and see what the guys would don't we went up the Mosel and we seen it all this is a scene that we were on top of a police department roof that had just been taken over by our guys and the mortars started to hit down the block boom boom and I looked at Jimmy looked at me and then we looked at that these young kids these were young soldiers on the roof and all they did was look over the roof and you know right away they've been shot at before they they were real deal guys we were would have a very proud of these guys you got hit know not sure what happened did got into the dust ended up on the side we got everybody else where's pilot who did a bit much worse but that's all the batters they all walk away it's all there such guys coming around just visiting the troops yeah thank you so much means a lot to me many people think of gym only as a film actor but Jim has an extraordinary career making documentaries and that's how I met Jim Bailey step in my friend Jim wanted to do something to help the country understand the sacrifices of the soldiers and to honor them places Jim this is change hey is this what the army calls combat stress yeah PTSD is what they call it in the world I come from the Army in the infantry land you know they don't believe in PTSD they believe that they're just weak minded people he really made me feel special in the fact that he gave me the opportunity to know to share my story when he sat down with the soldiers they felt that they knew Jim they had watched him on TV he had been in their house and they told him things from deep down in the souls that they wouldn't have told anybody else on earth you know do I wonder if my kid if I ever have a kid do I wonder if they'll love me like for who I am I hope so what were you just thinking about the reality of you know will I be able to to raise a kid I won't be able to pick up my son or daughter with two arms I won't he's an intense listener and so it was very easy for me to feel comfortable and open up it wasn't about him it was about telling our stories and it was about the American public you know getting to know us as people and seeing our challenges I'm shredded I'm torn up I'll be single dress my life who the hell can love me like this mm-hmm love like this he actually stopped the interview a couple times gonna start crying you know I was like I was like is this genuine I mean is this is he Faru cuz it's at the end of the day it's changing Alfie I mean the dude could act a little that I knows all sure and just love oh man I gotta get a hug giggling job thank you you're welcome oh god bless you for what you're doing - when we got done with it all he asked was there anything I do for you right now great - second if you could say hi to my fiance I call her left slowly he took the phone and he was smiling you know that frickin gettin all fini smile man first thing Jimmy said to her hey I got to ask you a favor be patient with him and that's me was up big cuz he knew he knew that this was a gonna be a long fight I still had a lot of fighting to do and just for him to I mean they did he just met me maybe but I could tell it was uh already really genuine we all take something away from our time with Jim you don't say that about everybody you need one of the things that that Jim did was he signed everybody's poster and I remember when he was signing mine he said I'm gonna write something on here and you read it when you need it and they box the posters up they shipped him to all of us and I haven't taken mine out of the box yet and I'm waiting because I know one day I'll need it and Jim will still be there for me tonight we're presenting a new award from the Wounded Warrior Project the James Gandolfini award by the way Michael Gandolfini fiction segment is also tonight's winner of the Jim Gandolfini look-alike content congratulations on that but keep the hair keep the James Gandolfini award honors an individual who exemplifies the values of the Wounded Warrior Project as Jimmy did please welcome Tony Sirico we played tough guys in the movies but these are the real tough guys these are the guys that keep us safe pad loud the pad loud I'm Craig Gilbert from New York I'm a big fan he was a masterful actor who had a tremendous amount of vulnerability available at any moment the only thing that surprised me was his sex appeal in person he's me yeah you know huh I meet a lot of people that have pretenses and aspirations to be something they're not and Jim always was who he was and always was genuine in his own skin Jim felt like a real breath of fresh air of someone that he really understood what the process was he took so much time studying Craig Gilbert's diction and how he would deliver us is what we've been waiting for the best stuff is happening right now he was so committed to representing this guy we did not know anything about him except that he was still alive and Jim said to me I got some friends that are gonna help me find him he knocked on his door can you imagine I'm sorry but can you imagine happy Jim Gandolfini knock on your door hey I'm playing you in a movie can we spend some time together all right that would be very surreal there's real suffering happening here Craig you should see my kids last night you're right I should have seen your kids and the whole world should have seen your kids and frankly without that and without this I don't even know if this thing is worth putting on the air he's one of the most memorable people I've met and worked with his real gift to me selfishly was his heart in terms of how much it felt and how sensitive he really was do you like fake boobs no no I like real boobs hmm yeah I got real boobs that's working out first and what I loved about working with him on those scenes was that he was very dedicated to the authenticity of it it's like tuning an instrument and that's how I think we both approach these scenes together if it sounded just right if he wanted to try something different it was these slight adjustments that really were profound I can give you a massage sometime if you want I think I might like that but I would definitely hit on you well it might be okay we had a shared understanding of what these moments were these sort of little real moments and it was a delightful experience we worked really hard on that last scene in the film when we got it we both knew we got it and we walked off of the set and we both fell into each others arms and hug and we both were weepy and in fact it's that very take people like James Gandolfini don't come along frequently in life and the fact that our lives intersected in this project which is varied you know it was a real labor of love the project and to have done that with him was just a complete gift and I'm really happy about it while fathers and sons should have this conversation y'all ms-21 the haircut is too much to ask I'm sure but you show up at that restaurant without a tie and a jacket you only gonna tangle my friend working with him are not fade away was great a lot of the stuff that had washed up on the beach of The Sopranos all that Fame and all that attention that was all gone and we was just like we were starting over again as two guys starting another project what I really liked about it is that between takes he and I were talking he and I were friends between takes that's what really made it so special what he did for actors like me he blew open the door for smart writing his whole likability factor and where's the speech where I redeemed myself through that throw that out the window he and David Chase did that they made it okay to do that because people watched and people couldn't get enough of it so I think he'll be remembered as a pioneer it was better than he thought he was I'm just in total denial about it and probably always will be you know I'm just like schedules are just not connecting no and that would happen we go months many months sometimes just missing each other you know that's how I'm treating it in my mind yeah we're just missing each other yeah eventually we'll catch up I was proud to be his friend I'm proud to be his friend and I'm gonna carry him with me throughout my career throughout my life he taught me everything I need to know to be a great man just wanna make sure I make him proud whenever I went to an HBO event or even anywhere you know there was always that 1% chance his giant hand would come and like mush my face and you know grab me and kiss me and hug me for me the thing that sticks out the most is that that's never gonna happen again even in his death he brought us all together he made us want to be there and hug each other and give love to each other and give affection to one another and care that's pretty remarkable too I don't know what else to tell you there's a good boy that was probably one of the most surreal days in my entire life because most of the people I hadn't seen since the show had wrapped our whole crew or whole cast it was like a scene we shot we've done this so many times before that was a good funeral to feel like a king you know you did something good in life when when people send you off like that and that's not just like a famous person's service that's like you did a lot of good and this is how we want to remember you know this how we want to say goodbye to you and they were putting the coffin into the hearse and all the cars were lined up outside the church and they were going to go to the cemetery barium I hear Shh and I look up and this giant eagle comes swooping down over the hearse and sits up on top of the church and looks down on everybody and it was gym and it stayed there looked at everybody for about a minute and as the cars drove away flopped away and went up to the sky you can travel down the road check on every vine you can travel down the road you can travel down the line but there were few like Jimmy he was home made wine honest good pure nothing added wants you to have a good time sharing with friends like family he was home made wine you need a dollar you got Jim loyalty and truthfulness that was him believing in something good out there never gotten away he was always fair good brother good son good father he always tried his best and all the rest he was homemade wine

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Keywords: Tribute, James Gandolfini (Theater Actor), Los Soprano, HBO, HBO (Organization), Subtitulado, Español, España, Castellano

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Length: 34min 30sec (2070 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 22 2014