Coronavirus has them quarantined on opposite coasts, but 'The Sopranos' stars Michael Imperioli (a.k.a. Christopher Moltisanti) and Steve Schirripa (Bobby “Baccalà” Baccalieri) launched a new podcast. Oh, the stories they tell.
on Monday. Their plan is to revisit all 86 episodes of the landmark HBO crime series. Sometimes they will have guests; sometimes it will just be the two men shooting the breeze in their rasping wiseguy voices.
Originally Schirripa and Imperioli planned to record “Talking Sopranos” from a professional sound studio in the East Village, but the coronavirus crisis necessitated a change of plans. With Schirripa holed up in his Wall Street apartment and Imperioli based in Santa Barbara, the two men were instead given podcast-quality microphones and instructions on how to use the Zoom conferencing app. Also essential: Schirripa’s 24-year-old daughter, Ciara.
“I want to talk to him,” says Schirripa. “I mean, how does that feel? Not getting the lead gig and then the show explodes? There’s just a ton of stuff to ask.” As it happens, Schirripa didn’t show up on “The Sopranos” until the second season, which for purposes of exploring the first season puts him in the role of interviewer, drawing details out of Imperioli, a cast member from Day One and eventual writer of five episodes.
“I’m a lifer actor,” is how Imperioli puts it. “And Steve had a whole other life in show business in Vegas where he dealt with performers, comedians, mobsters and gamblers. So we’re very different people and that’s fun too.”Imperioli is referring to a well-known part of Schirripa’s back story: Born in Bensonhurst to a low-level bookie, he was the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas at the time he was cast on the series.
About six months ago, the idea for a podcast began percolating. While there are already a sea of rewatch podcasts out there, most of them are hosted by fans, “not by two guys that were series regulars on the show, you know, this is the only one,” says Schirripa.
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