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The scene was, Christopher is high on heroin and wakes up from his drug-induced stupor and the dog, Cosette, is underneath his butt and the dog is suffocated and dead. I was always amazed at how fans would be, yes, Christopher killed sixteen people. Nobody is really complaining about any of that or batting an eyelash, but you sit on one dog and people will never forgive you for that. […]
Jul 30, 2023 08:04AM
Woke Up This Morning: The Bestselling, Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos

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There was an episode where they were going to go to Paulie’s apartment, and the set designers and producers were racking their brains to figure out what the apartment would look like. They were going on and on. “What would Paulie’s apartment look like?” Finally, somebody said, “The guy is the guy. Let’s go to Tony Sirico’s apartment.” That’s what wound up being Paulie Walnuts’s apartment. [...]
Jul 29, 2023 05:58AM
Woke Up This Morning: The Bestselling, Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos


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We have to talk about the wings. Tony [Sirico, the guy who played Paulie] has gray hair. But he would go to a barbershop in Brooklyn called Three Brothers, and they would dye his hair jet black and then put the silver wings in on the sides. If you look in the pilot, the wings are very small. They get bigger as the series goes on. […]
Jul 29, 2023 05:56AM
Woke Up This Morning: The Bestselling, Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos


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Tara […] I always found that fascinating. No animals were hurt in the filming of The Sopranos. The dog was not real, but the dog’s tongue—which when the dog is revealed to be dead, the tongue is hanging out—the tongue was made out of prosciutto by the prop master.


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