David Chase didn't know if James Gandolfini was 'threatening enough' to play Tony Soprano while casting 'The Sopranos.' ...

The tension between James Gandolfini, the actor, and Tony Soprano, the character, was often hard for the star to live with, ...

James Gandolfini wasn't well known when he landed the part of Tony Soprano on the HBO series "The Sopranos," and the show's ...

More than 25 years later, it seems impossible to imagine anyone other than James Gandolfini in the role of Tony Soprano.

In a new biography, “Gandolfini,” Jason Bailey seeks to find the real man behind the beloved gangster on HBO’s “The Sopranos.

The role of Tony Soprano came down to three actors. Inside an HBO conference room, Sopranos creator David Chase needed ...

In the new biography titled Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, series author Jason Bailey detailed a ...

David Chase had reservations about casting James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in his series The Sopranos, it has emerged. A new ...

In Jason Bailey’s new biography about the beloved actor, Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, an excerpt of which ...

More than 25 years later, it seems impossible to imagine anyone other than James Gandolfini ... he threatening enough?” Sanders quickly shut down that thinking. “If you said to me, ‘He ...

Meanwhile, Gandolfini had his own concerns: "Oh, for f---'s sake. This guy wants to eat breakfast? This guy's going to be a ...

When he finally settled down and really did a reading, it was just obvious,” Chase recalled in an excerpt via Jason Bailey’s ...