“There was no dry eye in the house”: James Gandolfini’s son Michael paid a poignant tribute to his late father who filmed The Many Saints Of Newark
Michael Gandolfini, the son of James Gandolfini, brought tears to the eyes of the cast and crew when he released the name of his late father during the making of The Many Saints Of Newark, the previous film of The Sopranos that will present this fall.
Michael, 22, will play the youngest incarnation of his father Tony Soprano’s character in the film, and according to film director Alan Taylor, 62, the second-generation actor grew up in the film. his late father, who died of a heart attack when Michael was 14 – during a dinner during production.
“We all had dinner one night,” Taylor told Empire. ‘At one point, [Michael] he stood up and said, “I want to thank everyone for doing this because it was an opportunity to greet my father … and say goodbye again.”
The latest: James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini, 22, brought tears to the eyes of the cast and crew when they released his late father’s name during the production of The Many Saints Of Newark, the film Film of the prequel to The Sopranos, which will be presented this fall. It was broken in 2019 in Los Angeles
Taylor said “there was no dry eye in the house” after Michael’s statement about James, who died while the two were on holiday in Rome on June 19, 2013.
Michael told the dam that the role of young Tony Soprano was probably the toughest decision [he’s] he never had to do.
“You know, I didn’t want to put pressure to get out of that feeling as if I had grown up in terms of my dad towards my dad,” he said. “I just wanted to be the best actor I could be, portraying Tony the way David wanted me, scene by scene. I didn’t think about my pain because … well, I would have stayed in bed.
The prequel focuses on the incipient mob boss when he was young amid the riots of the 1967 Newark riots and tensions between the African American and Italian-American communities.
Joe Pantoliano and the late James Gandolfini (R) won Emmys for their work on The Sopranos
Michael was seen on set as the youngest incarnation of his father Tony Soprano’s character in 2019
Michael, who had previously been seen in The Deuce, The Boy, the Dog and the Clown and Youngest, said the softer sides of the iconic television character are illustrated during his formative years.
“My dad’s character had all this beautiful sensitivity under this aggression,” Michael told Empire. This version of him is the opposite. His curiosity and sensitivity comes first. He is not an armed gangster. He is a boy who sinks and starts ”.
He joins a cast that includes Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Cory Stoll, Billy Magnussen and Alessandro Nivola in The Many Saints Of Newark, which will premiere on October 1st.
The creator of Gandolfini and Sopranos, David Chase, was seen on set in May 2019