In conversation with mattzollerseitz, TheSopranos creator David Chase remembers the late Tony Sirico
Photo: Photo 12/Alamy Stock Photo Tony Sirico’s authenticity was not an act. His performance as the pontificating, hot-tempered Paulie Walnuts on David Chase’s The Sopranos stood out amid one of the most formidable casts in television, and while some of the performers were mob-adjacent or claimed to be, Sirico was the only principal cast member who came straight out of the world depicted on the show and had the record to prove it.
When I heard Tony died, all I could think about was the scene in “From Where to Eternity” — which Michael wrote — where Paulie is in the hospital after Christopher has been shot. He tells Christopher that he’s not worried about purgatory, because he’s assigned a numeric value to all his mortal and venial sins and concluded that he’s gonna have to do 6,000 years, and that’s okay because “6,000 years is nothin’ in eternity terms. I can do that standing on my head. It’s like a couple of days here.
Well, there was some footage in the documentary of them visiting, but I don’t think they went there for that reason. Jim just wanted to go over there, for the troops, and Tony wanted to go with him. And so they went.He never asked me anything! At least I can’t remember him ever asking me anything. [Laughs] He wasn’t the kind of actor who had a lot of questions about his character!
People always ask me, “What is it like killing a character off?” It’s difficult, because it means they aren’t gonna be on the show anymore. It was never easy for me. It certainly wasn’t pleasant. But I tried to keep in mind that this was a show about the mob, and people in the mob get killed. One of the actors who was really, really into it was Al Sapienza. When he found out his character was going, he tried to find a way out of it. “Well, maybe I could do this. Maybe I could do that.
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