The "Sopranos" creator was hesitant to cast the actor in the HBO series' lead role. In an excerpt published by Vulture of Jason Bailey’s book “Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend ...

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A new book on the life and career of James Gandolfini ... The Sopranos creator David Chase initially worried Gandolfini wasn’t “threatening enough” to play the troubled mobster.

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James Gandolfini wasn’t well known when he landed the part of Tony Soprano on the HBO series “The Sopranos,” and the show’s creator David Chase wasn’t completely sold on the casting when ...

By McKinley Franklin David Chase wasn’t initially sold on James Gandolfini playing Tony Soprano in The Sopranos because he thought he wasn’t “threatening enough.” In an excerpt from Jason ...

A new book on the life and career of James Gandolfini, the man best known for bringing Tony Soprano to life and helping to usher in a golden age of prestige television, contains at least one shocking ...

David Chase had reservations about casting James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in his series The Sopranos, it has emerged. A new book by Jason Bailey, Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend ...

However, while Chase ... Van Zandt as Silvio Dante, James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano and Tony Sirico as Paulie Walnuts in ‘The Sopranos’ (Getty Images) “David, if your only concern is ...

Washington DC [US], April 27 (ANI): 'The Sopranos' creator David Chase wasn't so impressed at first with actor James Gandolfini to cast him in the lead role for the iconic show 'The Sopranos ...

It's impossible to imagine anyone but James Gandolfini as the menacing Tony Soprano, the sadistic yet charming criminal at the center of The Sopranos. But that didn't stop David Chase from trying.