- “Sopranos”Todd Kessler, writer, said James Gandolfini took him out to dinner after the employee was fired.
- “He knew what had happened, and he said, ‘I’m taking you out,'”Kessler spoke in “Woke Up This Morning.”
- Kessler also remembered that Gandolfini told Kessler to be proud of the “great work”He did it on the show.
“Sopranos”Todd Kessler, writer for HBO drama, stated that James Gandolfini took him out to dinner after the employee was fired.
Kessler spoke to Steve Schirripa, Michael Imperioli, and Steve Schirripa about the film. “The Sopranos”As Christopher Moltisanti, and Bobby “Bacala”Baccalieri and respectively) in their oral history of the show where Gandolfini was made one of theirs “dearest friends in life as we worked on the show.”
“Jim called me up after he finished work that day. He knew what had happened, and he said, ‘I’m taking you out,'”Kessler remembered the day he got fired.
According to the “Damages”Gandolfini and creator were sitting in a restaurant when two women approached them. Gandolfini introduced Kessler to them as a writer for the show, who had just been fired.
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“I shrunk, I was so embarrassed,” Kessler remembered. “But they didn’t care. And we talked a little bit, they laughed, and then Jim said to me — and it was really one of those moments that will forever stick with me of Jim — he said: ‘You do not shrink. You have nothing to hang your head about.'”
“‘You hold your head high and know that you did great work,'”Kessler said that Gandolfini told him.
Kessler stated to Imperioli & Schirripa “getting fired was something that was really painful but formative.”
You can also find it in Imperioli and Schirripa “Woke Up This Morning,”The actors revealed that Gandolfini, who passed away in 2013, received an anonymous late-night call from someone else. This phone call inspired an iconic line. “The Sopranos.”
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