series creator David Chase was Italian, and scoffed at his audacity for trying to tell a mafia story. “I kind of thought ‘Who’s this guy’ making a show about Italians!
Scorsese and Coppola were Italian Americans,” said Imperioli, who was also in Scorsese’s modern classic mob movie, “Goodfellas.” He added, “But I worked really hard on it, and went in [to audition] for David [Chase].
And David is very poker faced….I walked out of [the audition] thinking, ‘This aint gonna happen. Who cares, he’s not even Italian!’” Onscreen, Chase offered up his side of the story.
Recalling Imperioli’s audition, Chase said, “Michael came in and he was great. But I played it straight. He was like, ‘Who the f–k is this guy, anyway, he’s not even Italian.
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