“You are doing a very good job, but know one thing …”: about twenty years ago, the star of the soprano received a phone call from the Mafia – News Series

Mafia organizations have often had ambivalent feelings on their representation on the screen, small or large. We know, for example, that they were quite flattered by the portrait brushed by Martin Scorsese in his masterpiece the freed.

To the point that some of its members were part of the casting, like Louis Eppolito, which embodies in the film “Andy Gros Lard”, which we discover when the Scorsese camera presents us, with the voiceover of Ray Liotta, the local sizes of the Mafia.

It turns out that Louis Eppolito was an authentic cop Ripou, who still collected the envelopes for the police at the time when he appeared in the film; His moment of glory. He also worked for the Lucchese and Gambino family. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 for several murders, he died at the Penitentiary medical center in Tucson, Arizona, in 2019 ….

The mafia had not appreciated the godfather of Francis Ford Coppola, to the point of disturbing the shooting in New York and even to impose certain requirements. Marlon Brando had even maintained herself on the phone with Russell BUFALINOwho was the godfather of the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family. On the set, the actor was flanked by a bodyguard who also made the actor in the film; A certain Lenny Montana, who was a bodyguard for the Colombo family …

An anonymous phone call

It is on this already busy soil that this anecdote is grafted concerning the sensational series the soprano, carried by an unforgettable and regretted James Gandolfini. In six seasons and 86 episodes, this cult series has been able to rely on a perfectly studied realism, dissecting the hers and misfortunes of this crime dynasty in the depths of itself, with fascinating acuity. This obviously does not mean that all the details in the series are of absolute fidelity.

Invited in 2021 in the show Late Night With Seth MeyersMichael Imperioli, who played Christopher Moltisanti, and Steve Schirripa, who played Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri, delivered anecdotes on their deceased friend and revealed behind the scenes of the series. Imperioli then tells the moment when the mafia has completely made a phone call to Gandolfini …

“”[James] Gandolfini received a call in the middle of the night. An anonymous call. He never knew who it was. He answers the phone and the guy said to him: “Listen, we like what you do. You do a very good job, but know one thing: a godfather never wears shorts”. And it hung up “. After which Tony Soprano began to wear long pants.

Fun, if we dare to say, to see that the mafia was assiduously looked at this unforgettable series which marked the history of the small screen.