David Chase, the creator of the classic American drama series, HBO's The Sopranos, reveals an interesting fact about the ...

Creator David Chase tells 'It Happened in Hollywood' it's because the HBO classic wasn't set in Manhattan — but 'Goodfellas' wasn't, either.

Chase thought Gandolfini was "brilliant," but he still had one concern before choosing him for the role, per a new biography ...

Meanwhile, Gandolfini had his own concerns: "Oh, for f---'s sake. This guy wants to eat breakfast? This guy's going to be a ...

In the final scene of the HBO drama, Tony (Gandolfini), Carmela ( Edie Falco ), Meadow ( Jamie-Lynn Sigler) and A.J. (Robert ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, while Chase, who created ... and Tony Sirico as Paulie Walnuts in ‘The Sopranos’ (Getty Images) “David, if your only concern is, is he threatening enough,” she began.

David Chase didn't know if James Gandolfini was 'threatening enough' to play Tony Soprano while casting 'The Sopranos.' ...

When he finally settled down and really did a reading, it was just obvious,” Chase recalled in an excerpt via Jason Bailey’s ...

In Jason Bailey’s new biography about the beloved actor, Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, an excerpt of which ...

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 Bailey’s new book ...