Don’t mess with Paulie Walnuts.
Chris Diamantopoulos, who guest starred in the final season “The Sopranos,” It was recently revealed that Tony Ciriccio – who played mobster Paul “Polly Walnuts” Gualtieri on the hit show – accidentally “killed” him with a real pipe during a scene.
Diamantopoulos, 49, recalled in an interview, “Sirico had two pipes, a lead pipe and a rubber pipe, one used when the camera was facing me, and one used when The camera was pointed at him.” People Published on Wednesday.
“What do you think he used on me the first time? The answer is that it was not fake,” Diamantopoulos said.
The actor joked, “Being beaten by Polly Walnuts was a rite of passage.”
Diamantopoulos appeared in 2006 as Jason Barron, a family friend of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) in the fourth episode of the show’s sixth and final season.
“I remember doing a scene with him where he was in the hospital. His character’s pain felt like a stab in the stomach, Diamantopoulos recalled when working with Gandolfini, who dead at heart Attack in 2013.
“I remember him being outside during breaks looking for a particular stone. He wanted to find a jagged rock, and he hid it under his hospital gown and put his hand on it so that when it called for the character to be in pain,” Diamantopoulos continued, noting that Gandolfini “pushed his hand down and the rock dug into his gut, and that gave him a chance to react to it.”
Diamantopoulos said, “I thought it was a really practical effect.” “Really a neat thing to see.”
Sirico has also passed away since the show ended. He Died in July 2022 at the age of 79,
David Chase, who created the beloved series, remembered Sirico after his death and how much he enjoyed writing for the late actor’s role.
“It happened because of what he did with that stuff. You would write a line, and then he would do it, and the look on his face would be incredibly ridiculous and funny,” Chase, 79, explained. rolling stone after Sirico’s death“And you’ll want to do even more. The way he talked.”
“It’s something I just thought about: Whatever he got, he made it his own. Everything. He made it his own,” Chase said.
“The Sopranos” aired for six seasons from 1999 to 2007.
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