The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #096 | MICHAEL GANDOLFINI | UNCLE JOEY'S JOINT with JOEY DIAZ

Episode Date: September 8, 2021

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I'm showered. The balls are powdered. It's going to be a hot one today. The fucking pool is closed, so I can't even refresh. You know what I'm saying? Like, all these fucking pools closed because there's nobody to work them.

The kids went back to college. The pool's usually open until fucking October. It's going to be 90 today, and I've got to fucking ride my bicycle like a fucking bump. but today's the last day of mercy's not having fucking school so at least I got the whole afternoon with her and then tomorrow back to fucking school

hopefully the numbers won't get bad here in Jersey and she could stay in the whole fucking year with no problems they got to wear a mask what are you going to do you know what I'm saying I'd rather how fucking wear a mask and go to school I mean she doesn't want to zoom either so she wants to go in there and be the bell of the ball let her have a fucking great time. Everything else that's going on, I haven't heard much from the Kay Quigley situation.

My heart still goes out to her and the families of the other guys that passed away. I don't know what's going to happen or what's going to be done. I thought I would hear something yesterday after the holiday, but it's still very quiet. And like I said, my heart goes out to her. I could just imagine how she feels.

She probably feels embarrassed. I mean, three people died around you, you know. I know she answered red band back and stuff, so at least I'm just happy that she's okay. I'm happy that she's responsive, and I'm happy that she's still with us, you know. I'm a little concerned about a future on what's going to happen, you know. We never know if the cops are going to show up or who's going to show up.

I just hope the situation passes her as quickly as fucking possible. Labor Day was sensational. I had a great time. I went to say goodbye to all my buddies at the fucking pool. It was heartbreaking. I had a... Listen, that fucking pool did more for me this summer than anything I did.

Yeah, I get... I'm having a great time at therapy with better help, but my real therapy was that pool this summer. And it was meeting new people and branching fucking out. And I had a great time. I had a great fucking time. You know, I became... Like I said, everybody I became friends with is over 16.

I'm getting ready to go out to my fucking pasture with these old guys, but they're all great, man. I'm happy that I fucking got to hang with them and talk with them. But the guy that stuck out the most was this kid that's on the spectrum. I befriended him and he became my friend. And he was a great fucking kid. He's 32 years old. He swims five fucking miles a day.

He does 100 laps a day. And this is an Olympic-sized fucking pool. You know, the kid's got a lot of heart And then he walks three hours Around the fucking place This is what you do when he's serious About fucking his health And that motherfucker got no COVID

He's darked and shit From being out in the sun every fucking day And he would inspire me man I would go out there and I would I go out there with my pussy Joe Dia's shit The water's too cold And he's like fuck you get in here It's beautiful, it's refreshing

It's supposed to be cold And he made sense to me So I would go out there and jumping the water with him. I didn't care how fucking cold it was. And I'd swim because he'd hold my fire to it. You know, he'd hold my feet to the fire. So, but, you know, like, I met him like in June.

And we started talking little by little. You know, I never, you know, I never bring my stuff out there. You know what I'm saying? Like, when I was out there, I was cool. There was a lot of kids there, so I didn't want to be like a fucking jerk off. But I became friends with him, you know, and I would talk to him. One day he told me he was smoking cigars and that he liked smoking weed and I said, you like smoking weed.

Well, I'll bring you a little something, you know? What the fuck? And I brought him some fucking laughing gas. I brought him a little butter laughing gas. And I said, roll this up. You know, I didn't bring, you know, rolling papers or whatever. The fucking next day I went there and he latched right on to me. He goes, what was in that stuff?

Oh, my God, I was high from 40 in the afternoon to 12.30 at night. I just sat there and looked at the TV and it was turned off. You know, all that shit. I was fucking dying. I'm like, oh, my God. I can't believe I gave fucking weed to a kid on the spectrum. And he fucking loves it. Look at him.

He was happy as shit. It did him great. So yesterday what I did was I said, fuck it. Let me bring him a guard. And I bumped into him in a couple of wreck things and shit. He's just a good guy, man. I needed to meet new people.

So that's what I did. I went out and I met new fucking people. So yesterday I went there and I took them, you know, I took like there's two old guys that smoke weed. And there's, you know, my friend, that smokes weed. So I brought them all a little butterweed.

And I brought the dude on the spectrum. My friend Josh, I brought him a fucking edible, like a 10 milligram starburst. You know, let me tell you something. He was so fucking happy. He goes to me, when do I do it? I go tonight.

He goes, forget tonight. I'm going to do it right now. And he ate it right there at the pool at 1 o'clock. And he goes, what do I do to get this thing going? I go, well, let you walk around the pool a couple times. and that'll get your heart going. He fucking started walking around the pool. I didn't even get a chance to say goodbye to him.

When I left, he was fucking walking, Jack. He was walking for about 40 minutes, so he must have been fucked up. He pulled an Owen Benjamin on me. That motherfucker was walking from here to fucking New York State and shit. So I loved it. I had a great day over there. And then I went to my friend's house

where my wife and daughter were with the kids, and they were throwing a tremendous fucking barbecue. Short ribs, Korean style, with the fucking, oh my God, fucking burgers, hot dogs, shrimp with bacon, fucking chicken wings. These motherfuckers threw down, Jack.

I brought him a few fucking edibles and I went over there and I sat there. I didn't jump in the water. But when I went to his house, this is the weirdest thing. I was sitting there and I had a couple of shrimp with bacon. You know, he wraps around the bacon around the shrimp and he puts on the grill nice.

And I'm sitting there and they're talking shit and I'm just listening to him. And next thing you know, I'm like, I don't fucking feel right, you know. I don't know what the fuck was going on with me. And I felt like puking at first. I'm like, fuck, well, why am I feel like puking for? And all of a sudden, like, I started sweating fucking profusiously.

And I'm like, fuck, I'm never going to make it inside. It was hot outside. I'm sweating profusiously. And I'm like, I got to tell one of these people to go and get my wife and shit. Uncle Joey's going down at this fucking party. And all of a sudden, like, I was like, I had my head down praying that God, please don't let me faint right here. I mean, it wasn't like I was going to fall. I was sitting down. So I was just fucking, you know, it was like somebody shot me in the head and I just fell down like the dude

and fucking American gangster. I'm going to do that shoot himself at the end. Detective Lupo, he shot himself and he just goes down, nobody knows. That's what I thought was going to happen. I was just going to faint. And I'm laying there and I look up and my wife, I look up and there's my wife coming at me. And as soon as she looked at me, she knew. She goes, are you okay? I go, no. and she goes, let's go inside. She fucking carried me. Not carry me. My wife can't carry me.

I'm a fat fuck. She just, you know, help me inside. And when I sat down, I started sweating. Let me tell you where I was sweating from my fucking elbows and my arms. Like nobody sweats from out here. My wife was like, what the fuck is this? And then a droplet fell off my finger right to the fucking floor. And I was like, Jesus Christ.

So I drank some water. She put some... Now, who knows? what the fuck happened you know this is my life lately welcome to my fucking life I just pass out of the fucking barbecue

you know what I'm saying that's the new and improved Joey D is for you but I'm okay you know whatever it was maybe it was the heat maybe it was who the fuck knows

a leftover edible maybe somebody put some fentanyl in my fucking milk who the fuck knows I don't fucking know what happened to me but I just had a moment listen it's fucking

September and I'm excited for a few things. First of all I love the fall. I love September in New York and New Jersey it's absolutely fucking beautiful but there's something else I'm excited about. I'm very and you guys notice it's just a broken record

now I'm just fucking speaking to the choir. I'm very excited about the many saints in Newark. To me it's a feather in my cap. It's not just a movie. It's a it's an accomplishment. I don't look at my life with a lot of accomplishments.

You know, I've had a lot of good moments, and I've done some good things. I've done some shitty things, and I've had some bad things happen to me. But accomplishments, I never graduated college. I never graduated high school. I never graduated eighth grade, nothing like that. This is something I'm very proud of.

I don't know why. It's just a stupid movie. If you want to call it that, I think it's a work of art. And I always wanted to work for David Chase. and I got the opportunity and I came through with flying fucking colors.

So I'm very proud of everybody involved in this project. You know? I actually, obviously I loved the show with all my heart and I was a true fan of it. You know, I told you guys

last week that on Monday that I took my daughter to the movie Saturday and I saw her enthusiasm and her excitement, you know, and at one point she was drinking an icy slush,

whatever those things are, and she was throwing sidekicks and punches at the screen and shit and then when we came home she broke down the whole movie to my wife in five fucking minutes you know and we were both

me and my wife were both fucking laughing and I'm like you know what she's my daughter because she's a fucking movie buff you know she loves movies she doesn't care she always says I want to go say that she doesn't care who's in it she doesn't care where the actor's in it she doesn't even look at things like that

she looks at them as I'm going to have some fucking fun You know, and I remember she made me think about that. Like how much fun I had at the movies. I grew up at the fucking movies. Every Saturday I was at the movies. Every Friday night it was at the movies. You know, the cinema on 48th Street, the Mayfair Theater, seen at Doni.

I went to all those movie theaters. New York City, Fairview, the fucking Binghamton. I saw 48 hours splash. Fucking Fairview. I saw fucking Apocalypse Now, the Evil at Mendo, fucking Union City Cinema. I saw fucking the longest yard, the original. I saw Rocky in that motherfucker.

I mean, I'm a movie buff that I never knew that I had what it took to be in the movies, but I was always a movie buff. This many Saints of Newark has brought the movie buff in me out at the age of 58 years old. So for the next couple weeks on this podcast, we'll be soprano on it up, whether you like it or fuck or not, okay? whether you like it or fucking not we're gonna soprano

this bitch up maybe take an episode or two dissect them maybe get a few guests from there dissect them and we're going to talk a lot about as much as I can talk about the many saints in Newark

you know it's going to be released here in 24 fucking days so we're all fucking excited here so today's guest is the star of this movie this movie has a couple fucking stars

and he for one I mean in my world everybody's a star in this movie except for me everybody's a fucking star seriously you know I'm not a fucking star I'm just a fucking fat fuck that cracks jokes but uh I want you guys to feel good about it

but today's guest is Michael Gandafini I hope you enjoy him he's a great fucking kid I'll be back afterward stay black enjoy Oh ho. Mikey G. What's the story? How you doing? What's happening, buddy? You look fucking dynamite.

Oh, thank you, man. I appreciate it. You're looking good. Your skin's glowing. Your what? Your skin's glowing. What kind of face routine you got going on, huh? No, no refall all fucking day. Just to join at night. I'm getting some good sleep. There you go. I'm drinking a lot of fucking water. I love it. And vitamin D, you know, Jersey vitamin D mixed with a little pollution.

The best. A little cancer in the air. It's good for you. I love that smell when you land. Like when I get back from L.A. and I land in New York, like the smell of, like, New York pollution and trash. Like, I love it. It makes me feel good. It's in my blood.

There you go. It's quite, I like when you're driving on the turnpike and you get that whiff, those fucking odors of New Jersey. like and you see that stack blowing the fucking smoke into the air and god knows what's up there in the marsh you have like the marsh and who knows how many bodies are buried in there i do know how many bodies are buried in there there's a lot in fact i saw a foot sticking out the other day on the 18 i'm like i'm not even going to bother that motherfucker it's funny we were driving on the 18 the end and then my daughter goes dad i just saw a bear and my wife is like let's pull over. I go, fucking pull over.

What is this is a zoo? This ain't no fucking zoo. We're not pulling over nowhere. Yeah, no way. I love that. I love that. How you been? I've been good, brother. I've been good.

You know, getting ready for the movie to come out. I've been doing all this sort of press, which is like so incredible and so weird and like talking about myself a ton. It's such an interesting fucking experience. It's like, I don't know,

I feel like, you know, like, I'm just a normal guy. So it's so weird to like, you know, have all, just answering all these questions about me and my life. It's been tough and fun and hard and scary and exciting and all that stuff. Good. How does it feel to be less than a month away from being in one of the best films of the year? Oh, man. I'm excited.

I'm just, like, excited. I'm really, I'm proud of what we did, man. I'm really proud of it. And, you know, that's the feeling I have and, like, proud for everyone to see it. And can't wait to get everyone together. It'll be like our family reunion, you know. How are you feeling with it coming out? I'm, this has been a great experience for me from the beginning all the way to now.

The shooting inspired me to move back here. Yeah. Just coming back for that movie inspired me in a way to go, what the, where have I been? What the fuck am I doing with my life? Living out in L.A. I'm ready for Jersey.

My daughter needs it. The set was one of the best sets I've ever worked on in my life. It was no drama. You know, another L.A. bullshit on the set. You could tell the big difference between shooting in New York and L.A. It's a big, big difference.

Everybody was dynamite. We laughed our asses off. There were long days, you know, but they didn't feel long. Like, I've worked on movies before where you're like, this sucks. Yeah. This was coming home at six feeling like you just came back from an orgy. You know, you just like, I leave there going, holy fuck, that was great today, you know. Oh, yeah.

David's directing and, you know, what you learn from him and just everybody. Everybody was just a phenomenal experience. and I saw the movie and when I went to see the movie I had expectations I don't know what the words I'm looking for and I was blown away I was really blown the fuck away

to the point that I sat there for like five minutes going what the fuck that I just see and I think the biggest takeaway I got from the movie was how good you were how good you came through how great you're arc was your arc you gotta remember or i only did one scene with you we never saw each other we never saw you know you were always off duty when i'd see you that was i know i know i know so we were never together

except for that scene and that was john's scene so we had nothing to do in there so i never really got to see you till i went to the movie and i was like on the drive home i was like that motherfucker I better be ready for what's coming his way after this. Oh, man, I really, I really, really appreciate that, you know, especially coming from you. And it's a testament to you guys. I leaned on every one of you. And like you said, like, we didn't have a lot of scenes together,

but all of us who are a part of it, like, David, David is such an incredible artist, not only in his writing, but, like, in his casting. I mean, he created a family. family and I got to lean on you guys and that's what I did. I just leaned on you guys and learned from you guys. And like you said, like, you know, a lot of people sometimes ask like, was it super intense? Was it hard? And like you say, of course it was hard and intense, but it was a fucking blast.

Like it was so fun. We laughed our asses off, you know? I mean, we were doing 14, 15, 16 hour days, but on days that I had off, not every day, but on some, a lot of days I had off, I'd come to set. I just wanted to watch. Like, I wasn't going to not watch you guys and get to watch these incredible actors and people work. Like, I love just being on set. It was the best, you know? It was the best. I really, uh, learned a lot from David. Like, I was a big fan of the show, but I liked the humor of the show. Like, I have always said the, uh, when they do the, um, when they do the internet.

intervention with Christopher, that is some of the funniest fucking things I have ever seen. And I'm a pink Floyd, I'm a Pink Floyd, Pink Panther guy. I'm a Pink Panther guy. I love the Pink Panther. And that's what that reminded me of. Like, when Polly goes to the psychic and he throws the chair. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

There's just so many fucking scenes that are hilarious, that you really laugh. And I remember It was my first day on the set And we had to do a scene And I was doing the comic thing I was trying to improvise And I remember somebody came home and they went Don't do it

Just sit and learn And I remember doing it Exactly how they wanted me to And all of a sudden I was in the Twilight Zone I was in the soprano episode Yeah Because David

is the king of silence. Yeah. He's the king of making silence. Like, when you're a stand-up comic, you come from a school, Michael, that you tell a joke, and it should vibrate, and then it comes back to you. But let the joke sit. Don't step on it.

And a lot of comics, including myself, you know, you're on a roll, so you just keep hitting them with fucking left, you know, with hard right hands. It's great once in a while to hit somebody, with a right hand and just settle. Yeah. And see what damage they take, just with the one right hand. And

that's what David Chase is the master of. Yeah. So it added a different component to comedy. Wow. That's real comedy that David Chase. Yeah, a lot of people don't look at it that way. Yeah, I've never that's incredible. I've never really thought about it like that. And, you know, like, I also, I just

have to say, like, you are so good in this movie. You're so good, because the thing that David did, which in many ways you think was impossible, but he, you have this whole plot line. The movie's about Dickie, and it's about the 1960s and 70s. What it was like to be a mobster during that time. What it was like to be in the sharks skin suits and the hats and the guns and what it was like back then. Not, it's a mob, movie. And then there's also the Sopranos in it and the Soprano characters. But first and foremost, it's a mob movie between, you know, Leslie and Alessandro, but you really represent both worlds

in a really hard way. Like your humor and humility comes off so, it's the Sopranos. Like, you're so funny in it and enjoyable and you're laughing while you're crying, but you also represent a real 60s, 70s, gangster and what it was like at the time. So I think that was super hard to do and you did it, you know? So I remember all that shit. You know, I came from Cuba in 66.

Yeah. So I was already in the Bronx in 6970. Yeah. And I still remember going around the corner. You weren't allowed to go around the corner. And I used to go around the corner and see those men sitting in front of the Italian place. And I still remember walking past them

to go get an Italian ice and losing my fucking mind. I'm a Cuban kid eating a cherry Italian ice. Are you fucking kidding me? And then going back two days later to get Sherbert with Sprite. Yeah, yeah. Because it was like a fucking place

where you got egg creams and Italianises and shit like that. Totally. And I still remember. going over there and them talking to me. And them like a spikaroo. You know what I'm saying? Like them call me a spikaroo and shit and me like,

what's going on? So I saw all that in the 70s. You know, I remember the 70s. A lot of people don't. They're not old enough. The 70s were a lot of fun. The country was very free. You know, New York City was on fire.

My mother had that bar in Jersey since the 50s. Oh, really? Yes, on 29th in Bergen-line in Union City. Holy shit. So I've been going, and that's where the Tony Pro was. It was a big, I think Henry Hill talks about Union City in his Goodfellers book that used to hang out at the bottom of the barrel. It's a big little Italian neighborhood that Cubans moved in.

By 1965, it became the second biggest Cuban community in the country. Wow. But it was still wrapped around Irish and Italian. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I got to see all that stuff, the Cadillacs and the fucking, you know, the convertible Cadillacs, the three miles to the gallon. Yeah, yeah. Because that's all those cars give you, it's three fucking miles to the gallon.

You better have money on the lecture 225, you know, all those. So I still remember all that stuff. And it's, I think David represented it tremendously in this movie. This movie's going to scratch at people a little bit, you know, the Newark stuff that a lot of people didn't know about, you know? Yeah, I mean, it's super important and just like a testament to what's going on now, you know, like, it just never went away. I mean, 67 was this, this hot summer, you know, like there was these protests across all of America

and this, and the most violent one being the one that actually happened in Newark. with, you know, the cab driver, John Williams Smith, I think, was his last name, but it's kind of incredible how it's still just a testament of what's happening today, you know? It's intense. Well, when I watched it, it was weird. It struck a chord with me with, you know,

with all the stuff that happened last year. I mean, it would have really scratched if it came out last September as it was supposed to, you know. Yeah. But I think the movie, still tremendous. I was talking to my mercy's godfather last night

and he was telling me my daughter's godfather and he was telling me that he doesn't know if he wants to see the movie until he watches the show because he works so many hours. My daughter's godfather and I go, the movie stands alone. It really does. It really does. Like I've been

watching, my wife has been watching the episodes again and I catch half of them. I'll come down and catch 20 minutes and it's just like the other night we were watching one and it's so weird how much like my wife is a Christian from Tennessee

she can't find a fucking Christian church around here like she can't find one you know so she's she's a Catholic we got her over at fucking you know St. Gabriel over there and she's like I don't understand that so we already like I didn't care what my daughter

what religion my daughter was I really didn't care as long as she has some type of faith you know she's not a fucking Eden but yeah I don't want to you know you got to believe in something you know yeah yeah so when she said

I can't find the fucking church I got to put her in Catholic school I was like that's cool and I go with them now I actually go with them my daughter signed up for you know CCD she already completed the week she's gonna make it come in next year it's so fucking weird

and the Sopranos is wrapped around Catholicism the episode I was watching the other night Carmella was talking to a priest and she was in confession and then there's always a funeral. You know, I've been here for fucking a year and I've been to three wakes already.

A year. I was here a month and I was at a wake already. Damn. I was here two weeks and I got invited to a fucking wake. Yeah. So the Sopranos really embraced everything that's Jersey. I'm fucking Jersey, bro. Totally.

I don't know if you know this. I was, you know, raised in New York till the third grade and i'm a new york city guy i love going over there not anymore it's a little weird now but as far as jersey's concerned i'm a fucking jersey guy and like i told david i go david bruce springsteen and bon jovi couldn't put jersey on the map you put jersey on the fucking map it's true no i mean he i think for all of us it was a really you know that there's something weird where like I you know I grew up in New York and my whole family lives in Jersey and I always kind of been in Jersey like every weekend and spend all my summers in Jersey but there's

this odd sort of Jersey pride that I feel I love New Jersey and I think you know it it's a great state and it where you're from is so important whether you're from New York or New Jersey or Tennessee or California, it has a lot about who you are. And, you know, David really has such a pride for New Jersey and a gratitude. And I think that's why he focuses on those details. The people and the family relationships and the locations, like even the mall. Like in the surprise, like the mall is a very big thing in Jersey.

Everyone goes to the mall, you know? Like, that's a big thing in Sopranos and church and the pressure of church and half your family loving church, the other half your family hating church. And, you know, like, it's just, it is very in Jersey. And it's important. It has to be, you know. There isn't any other place that David would know to talk about in such a poetic and incredible way. I got to tell you, I'm very proud of being from New Jersey.

but this movie pushed it over the top for me. I have to really be honest. This was my stripes. This is my biker jacket. You know, this is my, it's funny. He said, again, my wife was watching it. She's been watching it now for about two and a half months. So I try to play the guitar while she's watching it and shit

because I've already seen the episodes back and forth. But sometimes I'll come in and she's watching the last episode. A couple weeks ago she was watching the episode when Carmela had to visit the guy in college at Columbia. He took her out to lunch to try to get the 50 grand from her. And she goes, I didn't know you were from Jersey. I didn't know you were Italian. He goes, yeah, Ross, short for Rosetti, you know.

And he goes, something about the Jersey school system. I've always been fucking proud about the Jersey school systems. I think I learned, you know, I'm fucking a savage from the Jersey school system. Because they didn't just teach you about school. They taught you how to get over, how to get free milk. They don't fuck around New Jersey. They had a driver ed teacher that we used to talk him into stopping and getting Chinese food. That's part of the fucking education.

We used to be, of course. We used to fucking sign up at a quarter to 11 to make sure he would have the car. We would be with him to 1130. and we talk him into, come on, Mr. McGrath, you've got to stop a chance. Just a couple steaks on a stick. Come on, we know you're hungry. We get the steak on a stick

and make sure he'd eat one first, so then you're guilty. You know what I'm saying? You can't rat us out. We're all good. But there's something about being from Jersey, like I told my, when I got here last September, I took my daughter around the corner,

and right away, I remembered kids in New Jersey. You ready for this? most kids go out to play in New Jersey you went out to die like when I was a kid in New Jersey I used to give my mother a hug and tell like I left a will

I left a little note under the pillow my trains and my hot wheels because I'm going to die when we were kids in New Jersey you didn't go out to play fucking whatever you went out to die like God forbid some car

pulled up to you when you were playing stickball and wanted you to move you know how many fucking fights we got into as kids with people driving cars because who the fuck are you to drive down the street right now? It's two outs. We got the bases are fucking loaded. We got the Puerto Rican up at bat

and you want to fucking drive here now. Get the fuck out of here. Come back in 20 minutes. Go fuck yourself and we fucking jump the guy and the next thing you know. There's something about Jersey. There's something about being from Brooklyn. There's something about being from the Bronx.

There's something about being from Harlem. But there is something from being from Jersey. Now, you went to high school in Studio City, correct? Yeah, so I, you know, I grew up in, so my whole family lives in Bergen County, and then I grew up in Manhattan, in Jersey, going back and forth my whole life. And then we moved out to L.A. in middle school. So I was in middle school, and we moved out, and I did middle school and high school in L.A. and then I turned 18 and went back to New York for college

and now I've been back ever since. You know, I'm an East Coast boy. I fucking love it here. And yeah, I do agree. Like, I think that after doing this movie, there is a certain odd pride about Jersey that I have now that I never had before. Just a real love for it.

So, yeah. Like I said, as I was shooting a movie, Then my days off, I would take the ferry over. And I got reacquainted. Yeah. I got reacquainted. I took a couple rides with my friends, Bergen County. And I said, what the fuck am I doing out there?

Mm-hmm. And it was just a process of when can we make the move back. Yeah. And what a lot of people that know was we were supposed to come back and shoot, where you had started shooting already on the 9th of March. Well, I did it. Yeah, I was the last day before we got shut down, which is that I, it was the phone booth scene. That was the scene before we got shut down when we came back to reshoes. Yeah. Yeah, that was the scene and then we got shut down and we kind of were all just waiting, you know, for fucking forever. And September came around and we we did those reshoots.

last couple of scenes. Did you, did you ever get to shoot in Jersey? Nope. Yeah, I know. Me and David, you know, I know David really wanted

to shoot more in Jersey. I got to shoot, I believe, two days in Jersey. And I remember, it just felt different. There's like something really special about it. But getting to like,

I was just so happy we got to shoot a couple of things in New Jersey. It just felt really right. You know what I mean? It was awesome. When I got the movie, I was very excited about

hanging out in Newark. Yeah. I was like, fuck, we're going to shoot Newark. Yeah. I haven't been to Newark in months.

They got the Spanish kitchen. Yeah. Great Portuguese section. They got great Italian food. They got a couple of Cuban restaurants. We'll go out at night in Newark, you know. And then when we got here,

I didn't have Newark at all anywhere in my shoot dates. it didn't depress me. I was just, listen, I was just happy to be a part of it. For me, Michael, I was just happy to be a part of it. I knew it was going to be something big. Yeah. I knew it was going to be something special.

When I heard you were in it, I really wanted to be in it. And, you know, I didn't know. I knew John. Yeah. You know, but I didn't know like Sam. I didn't know little Paulie, Corey. I didn't know a lot of those guys. fucking Samson. I love that

motherfucker. All of them. All of them. You know, John, Ray Leota was great to shoot with him. He was fucking dynamite. You know, the first thing. He was dynamite. And I got to tell, for people who don't know, he's another guy that did great in this

fucking movie. I think his character was fucking tremendous. I think David hit it out of the park with his character. Yeah, everyone. Everyone, I'm just so proud of it. Everyone. Everyone's so, so good in it and like to have such a blast I mean for not not one of us fucking hated anyone like do you know how rare that is like not what there's got to be one guy that I can't stand that person

like it wasn't anyone like it was just the best how did so how did you did you audition or did you just get it offered how did it come your way I found out he was doing it I thought about it for like a week and I contacted John. John, I don't have the script nobody knows. You know,

I knew Dave wasn't going to have a script out there. I knew David wasn't going to have the right lines out there. I knew David was not going to give you lines

from the movie at all or anything. So I just I thought about it and I talked to my agent and they sent the sides, you know, and I looked

looked at the sides, and there was a trick question in the sides. What was it? It was a trick. It was a, it was a, just the way he did the line. Yeah. I was supposed to react to it a certain way. Ah, okay. Okay.

And at first I looked at it. I didn't know what to do, but voila. Yeah. I thought about a scene with Silvio and your dad got rest of soul. And I go, that's the scene. He's referring to, I'm going to do this. Nice. And I did it, and I sent it.

There you go. I had no expectations. Because you really can't read somebody off a tape. Especially for that film. So I really had to think about my audition. I really had to work it out. It was just a couple lines. It wasn't even about the thinking.

It wasn't even about the lines. It was more about, what I was going to put through that camera, what I wanted David to see through that camera. Yeah, yeah. So I did a slate. I spoke about Jersey. I knew that he wanted somebody from Jersey,

and he wants the spirit of Jersey. He wants to smell Jersey. Authenticity, yeah. So I let him know, and then I put the audition online. I did the little Silvio bump, and about a week later, they contacted me and said,

there's a little interest, what do you think, blah, blah, blah, blah, and then believe it or not I was ready to turn it down why? Because I was going to be away from my daughter for too long I was like it's two weeks

and then I got to go back for another two weeks I go it's going to be a pain in the ass I go I got these dates like I was still fucking and I'm and all sudden Tom Papa this comedian named Tom Papa I spoke to him and I'm like I don't know

and he goes are you fucking stupid you can't be this fucking stupid he goes that's David fucking Chase even if the movie is a bomb he goes you still get to work with David Chase you're going to learn something and I go you know what you're right and I knew this all along

like I was dying to work with David I knew this all along so I was like fuck it let's do it you know how did it come for you oh I I had heard that they were going to do a movie I was like, okay, you know, I'd never seen the show.

I kind of was not really a part of it. It was my dad's thing. So I just kind of, you know, was going to college and live in life. And then they said there's going to be a younger Tony. And I said, okay, great. Who's amazing in the movie, William? And then they said there's an age jump. There's going to be an older Tony.

and they want you to audition. Yeah, you know, and I had the, almost the opposite experience where my hesitation was at the beginning. I was just kind of, you know, I was scared. I was like, well, I don't know, should I do it? I don't know if I could do it. A lot of pressure. Not even regards to like all the dad's stuff is one layer,

but also the layer of like playing Tony Soprano. want to do it authentically. I want to do it right. It's a very complicated, very important character to a lot of people and can I do this? And one of the things is just like, what can I add? Like I didn't know, I thought 86 hours of Tony Soprano, what new is there to say or do? And I got the sides. I was like, Carmine. I was like, I was auditioning. I was like, who the fuck is Carmine? I was like, I thought I was out to do for Tony. And, uh, and I was like, all right.

He always throws a curveball at you. He throws a curve ball. And, uh, I, uh, went in. And my, you know, my manager at the time was like, it's, it's Doug Abel, who's casting. He's a great casting director. I was 19, maybe even 18 at the time during my first audition, which is crazy. And it was a, he's a great. cast director. So if anything,

it's good for me to get in front of good cast and directors in practice. And that was kind of like the goal in my head. Like, don't worry about any of this other shit. Just go in front of a good casting director. You'll learn something. You don't have the part. Whatever. So I went in,

did it. And then over probably probably like three or four months, I went in, I think, three times in the last audition was with Alan and David. And similarly to you, I did the audition

and David was writing a scene that he hadn't he had taken it out and put it back in and taken it out and he just wasn't sure. And he was like, can you read this? Just cold read it. You know, we're thinking about putting in the movie, but I want to hear

it out loud. And like you, I got it. You know, I'd never seen them before. I didn't work on them, but I knew exactly what to do. I was like, I know. I know the tricks in here. I know the jokes. I know when to be serious. When to, because the thing, Tony's very bipolar. He's, he cries, he gets angry and then he cries and then he laughs at himself that he's crying, like in the span of 30 seconds. So like you have to just be able to move wherever I want. You know what I mean? You have to be able to do to get angry.

and then laugh at yourself and you know like I had to have all that night when I knew that I could be handed a page that David wrote and this incredible scene and know how to do it that's when I sort of was convinced like okay I can do this I can do this and then when I heard holy shit like Alessandra Navola and John Berenthal and Vera Farmer Amiga and Corey Stoll. And then we got to meet Samson, who's an incredible actor and Alexandra. And like all these in Billy and Ray, like, I just was like, this is the greatest gift for a young actor. To not only play such a complex and hard and exciting character, but to also get to learn from all of these people, like, it was this the best.

It was the best. I was blown. Listen, it takes a lot to blow my fucking wig off. Okay? It takes a fucking lot, you know. I'm an old man. You know, I've been doing this for a while. This blew my fucking wig off.

Okay. So I can't imagine what it did for you, man. It's a great sitcom. It made history. David fucking, you know, if you thought big he kicked down the walls, fucking David ripped him off the ground, you know. David is fucking Hurricane Ida.

You know, like he just doesn't fuck around. David. Yeah. So I was, I'm very proud of this. It's the reason why I moved to Jersey. Yeah. Like, this is complete. I could come back here now and hold my head up high.

I'm very proud of myself. for being in this movie. I'm proud of myself for behaving the way I did on this movie. You know, like just, it was such a fun time, but I was a professional.

I knew my stuff, and I worked hard. And I got to meet some great people, and I got to meet you, you know, and I think you're a sweetheart. You know,

and I want all the best for you. It's so weird what you look like when I met you. And what you look like today, like I remember talking to Nicole, one time and going, when are we going to fucking shoot this? And she's like, you think you got fucking problems.

This kid's getting older by the day. You know what I'm saying? We got to shoot this shit. He's starting to grow hair. You're starting to get tall. You know, and I'm like, oh, my God, I never even thought of that. You know, that he's growing. So I got to meet you.

You know, this has just been a tremendous. And now, like, I'm starting to hear from people. Like I heard from Samson, I'm hearing from, you know, John. Yeah. Like September 1st, everybody woke up from their fucking slumber. No, we did. Yeah, I got, I mean, Vera has been calling me John. We're going to all be together.

It's going to be, it's going to be amazing. It's going to be amazing. So we're doing the 23rd at the beacon? 22nd. It's a Tuesday or Wednesday? I don't fucking. I think it's a Wednesday. Yeah, that sounds right.

Yeah, it's going to be, I mean, to have all of us together again, it's been fucking 10 years it feels like yes it has let's see let me double check this so the 22nd is a Wednesday that's right so we're doing it the Wednesday and that's not a premiere that's just us no I think it's a premiere

I think it's like it's a there's gonna be yeah it'll be a premiere a real real whole thing I think they're still trying to like I don't have tickets yeah but I think they're still getting them out to everyone and yeah it'll be a whole thing that's gonna be fucking dynamite.

Yeah, like I'm sure the cast, I hope the cast of the show will be there and we'll all be together. It'll be fucking amazing. So they're doing a festival here on the 27th and 28th in New Jersey. Oh, cool. One night at Monmouth and one night

in Eton Town. I spoke to the guy and he said to pass the message on that you're invited to both of them to do a QA. I'll give you a call this week and let you know the name and everything. I forget the name of the film festival.

It's small. You know, it's like the one night, it's 120. And the other night it's like 300 seats in Monmouth and they're going to do an early screening. I was thinking of going to the one in the eating town. Yeah, let's go together. It'll be so fun. See some people, say

hello, answer some questions, whatever the fuck they need. There you go. We'll have a great time. I'm also thinking of going to Guns and Roses this week. No way. Yeah, they're going to be here Saturday and Sunday in Atlantic City. I heard they're incredible.

They're incredible. I want to take David and let them rock out and shit, but I don't think he wants to fly in for that. I love it. I mean, he loves Guns and Roses. I feel like that's totally his taste. Yeah, so, you know, this has just been a great experience. I'm happy you took the time to be on here today. I love you with all my heart.

I love me. I got to tell you something, I miss your dad, and I never even met him. Yeah. I miss him, and I never even met him. I went out and bought the drop on DVD so I could watch them because I love them in the drop. Yeah, it's, it's, I love them in the soprano's, but I love them in the drop. I love them and get shoddy. I love them and everything.

So I know that you had your shoes filled in this movie, and you stepped up to the fucking pump and hit it out of the park. I'm very proud of you. I love you and I can't wait to be with you and watch this movie on the big screen. We're going to have a good fucking time. It'll be amazing. Thank you very much for taking the time. I just wanted to see you and talk to you a little bit and check in with you, brother. It made me so happy.

Anytime you need me, I'll be there. The joint's going to love this. I love you, brother. Have a great weekend. And I'll see you in a few. But I'll give you a call on that festival. Yeah, give me a call. It'll be fun.

Okay. You got it, brother. Stay black. Bye. Bye. What's happened, you bad motherfuckers? I hope you enjoyed my little te-tate with Big Mike. When I met him, he was just a kid.

And he was a great kid. We laughed our asses off on that set. He ain't lying. We had a very good time on that set. It was very enjoyable. David Chase was a pleasure to work with. Alan King was a pleasure to work with. Nicole was a pleasure of all the other producers were a pleasure to work with.

I'm just, if you know anything about me, I'm not just saying this. I had a really good time. And I know a lot of you guys are waiting on this movie. So that was Michael Gandalfini. That was his take on it. I hope you enjoyed it. And I will keep you guys posted. Next week we'll have another guest from the movie or the series or whatever.

We'll fucking just talk about it just to get you fired up for this motherfucker, there's still a few tickets available for the Beacon Theater. So if you guys want to go to the Beacon Theater, I think the tickets, I don't know what they start at. He clarified it for me today. He thinks that's the premiere. I don't want to lie to nobody and tell you you're going to a premiere or whatever. But tickets are available.

There's not a lot left, but go on the Beacon Theater website, and they'll hook you up. Laughing Gas is back in stock. Why fuck around? When you could smoke the best if you're in the California area, go up to the ice cream shop and pick up a little bit of laughing gas and fucking have a good time, jump up and down with your friends. And besides that, that's it.

I love you, motherfuckers with all my heart. It was another fun-filled week. And as you could tell, I'm coming back little by little. I'm making my little comebacks and shit. I'm getting better. I'm getting happier. And it's all thanks to you guys and the support that you guys had given me throughout the last year. Thank you very much.

Have a great weekend. I want to thank Michael Gandafini. But most importantly, I want to thank you guys for always having my back and for supporting the podcast. I will keep you up to date on the Kigley stuff. I love you, cocksuckers. Stay black. Have a great weekend. And I'll see you Monday morning.

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