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| The Guardian - Culture: TV & Radio | | | | Sopranos star Michael Imperioli: 'I thought they were going to fire me' | | by Rob Walker Nov 4, 2021 | | He played trigger-happy, heroin-addicted gangster Christopher Moltisanti. As Michael Imperioli takes the TV classic on tour, he remembers the time he almost killed the leading man There’s a scene in Goodfellas in which gangster Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci, shoots dead a young bartender called Spider who had unwisely told him to “go fuck yourself”. Pesci won an Oscar for the film – and while Spider the bartender was a small role for the then little-known Michael Imperioli, it was to be his big break. “I wanted that job at all costs,” Imperioli says. “It was Martin Scorsese – he’d made some of my favourite movies. I was all in.” Continue reading... | | | | | | | |
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