[LouAvul]

From a thread 20 or so down from yours: “Gandolfini was a cokehead and unstable.”

[Boogieman]

“Gandolfini was a cokehead and unstable.”

So he was a method actor...

[Rockingham]

Gandolfini was not always "a cokehead and unstable." Most of that was behind him during the Sopranos, with departures due to Gandolfini's dislike of being a TV celebrity. Notably, the series had numerous conservative elements and plot points due to the perspective of writer-creator David Chase, which Gandolfini delivered credibly.