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“ The Sopranos ” showrunner and creator David Chase has confirmed the rumors that James Gandolfini kept “going missing” from set while filming the hit crime drama. “Well, fortunately, I wasn’t the one who dealt with him going missing,” he explained.
“That was Ilene Landress, our line manager. She was the one who found out where he was and did everything that needed to be done.”“The Sopranos” showrunner David Chase confirmed rumors that James Gandolfini kept “going missing” from set while filming the HBO hit.Chase opened up about his working relationship with Gandolfini during an interview published Friday.‘Sopranos’ star Jerry Adler died ‘peacefully in his sleep’ at 96: rep ‘Sopranos’ star Joe Pantoliano reveals mental health issues almost ‘destroyed’ his life: I was ‘a mess’ However, the 80-year-old Emmy winner also acknowledged that Gandolfini wasn’t always happy filming “The Sopranos,” which aired on HBO for six seasons from 1999 to 2007. “I mean, he asked to meet me a couple of times, once on the banks of the Hudson River when he didn’t want to go to work, and he was so unhappy,” Chase told the outlet. He added, “This happened three or four times, and we talked and talked and talked, but I was never the one who had to find out where he was.” Reports that Gandolfini would go missing from the “Sopranos” set first surfaced in James Bailey’s 2025 biography of the late actor, “Gandolfini: Jim, Tony and the Life of a Legend.”“Well, fortunately, I wasn’t the one who dealt with him going missing,” Chase said of Gandolfini .Chase also acknowledged that Gandolfini wasn’t always happy filming the hit crime drama.Phil Abraham, the show’s cinematographer, told Bailey that Gandolfini’s absences became such a problem that the network started fining the actor hundreds of thousands of dollars every time he didn’t show up to work. “I can’t say I’ve ever been on a show where something like that has gone on, but this was sort of a different beast,” Abraham explained. “At a certain point, HBO was fining him 250 grand a day,” the cinematographer added. “And he would say, ‘F–k it. I can’t come in to work.’ So we knew then, it’s not just him doing a lot of blow and drinking, and he’s not getting up because he doesn’t want to get up. No, it was deeper than that.” Like Abraham, Chase acknowledged that Gandolfini’s issues didn’t have anything to do with the show itself. “He never refused to do anything,” Chase noted. “He never said, ‘I’m gonna go wait in my trailer, and when you’re ready to shoot it the way I want it, come get me.’ That never happened.”Chase said that Gandolfini’s issues didn’t have to do with “The Sopranos” itself.“He never refused to do anything,” the showrunner said of Gandolfini .“Oh, I’m not sane at all when I’m doing the show,” he said during the interview. “I’m completely insane when I’m doing the show. But my family, my friends – I’ve got some good friends – they all help.” He added, “I got successful at a late age, so I’m under no delusions about what all this is about. Well, I’m sure I have some delusions. But you know, basically it’s a job. You work hard, and you get tired a little bit, but that’s all it is.”Gandolfini died of a heart attack in Italy in June 2013 at the age of 51.“Oh, I’m not sane at all when I’m doing the show,” Gandolfini said during a 2001 interview. “I’m completely insane when I’m doing the show.”“I am at the hotel bar when the crew member closest to Jim asks if I want to go down to Atlantic City with Jim and a few others. It’s over an hour away. I decline,” Kamine writes of one Season 5 incident. “The next morning, I’m not surprised when Jim cannot be roused.” Kamine went on to write that Gandolfini eventually showed up to set “cursing his way through his half-learned lines, doing take after take, drinking coffees and bottles of water, alternatively sheepish and churlish, the way he always is when he f–ks up.”Sydney Sweeney’s spray tan artist is ‘obsessed’ with this self-tanner — and it’s on saleBethenny Frankel shared her favorite ‘beyond flattering’ one-piece swimsuits — and they’re all under $37 right nowTaylor Frankie Paul and rumored ‘Bachelorette’ winner Doug Mason can't hide chemistry with flirty social media exchangeThe luxe Hanky Panky panties Jennifer Aniston wears are almost 50% off right nowSydney Sweeney’s spray tan artist is ‘obsessed’ with this self-tanner — and it’s on sale"The Sopranos" showrunner David Chase confirmed rumors that James Gandolfini kept"going missing" from set while filming the HBO hit.Chase opened up about his working relationship with Gandolfini during an interview published Friday.“Well, fortunately, I wasn’t the one who dealt with him going missing,” Chase said of Gandolfini .Chase also acknowledged that Gandolfini wasn't always happy filming the hit crime drama.“He never refused to do anything," the showrunner said of Gandolfini .Gandolfini died of a heart attack in Italy in June 2013 at the age of 51."Oh, I'm not sane at all when I'm doing the show," Gandolfini said during a 2001 interview."I'm completely insane when I'm doing the show." Stream It Or Skip It: 'Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole' On Netflix, Where A Troubled Detective Tracks Down A Serial Killer Who Is Terrorizing Oslo
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