Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, Goodfellas, Summer of Sam) and I do an impromptu podcast. It's SO relaxed that it’s a 100% different experience than listening to his original episode of Really Famous.

OUR 3rd TALK (Live in New York):

OUR 2nd TALK:

OUR 1st TALK:

Michael Imperioli LIVE - Get it all here.

Join Michael Imperioli and me as we talk:

Who he based Christopher Moltisanti on (a real-life person! who has no idea!)
Why he said "F that" about David Chase
Why he knew James Gandolfini really well, but Edie Falco didn't
Who he stays in touch with from The Sopranos
Who he hangs out with
What he does when he's bored
What his kids think of him in The Sopranos and Goodfellas
Why he moved to Santa Barbara
Why he recently moved back to New York and is now bicoastal

We also:

Are so relaxed that it's actually quite amusing
Bond over childhood TV and our favorite shows now
Analyze Spike Lee
Laugh at each other
Overanalyze this conversation ... and then don't

The Perfume Burned His Eyes

By Imperioli, Michael

Goodfellas (1990) Remastered

Off the Back of a Truck: Unofficial Contraband for the Sopranos Fan

The Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco

By Bucco, Artie, Rucker, Allen, Scicolone, Michele, Chase, David

The Sopranos: The Complete Series (Blu-ray + Digital HD)

Starring Various

"I'll Have The Gabagool" Novelty T-Shirt

Jersey Dirt Threads & Merch

More of The Sopranos (& me)

My Edie Falco piece in The New York Times
My Edie Falco piece in The Wall Street Journal
My Jamie-Lynn Sigler cover story for WebMD Magazine

TRIVIA: Which Really Famous guests bring out a different(ish) side of me?

Send me your observations! reallyfamouspodcast@gmail.com

More of The Sopranos (on Twitter)

Check out @TheSopranosClub and @TheSopranosShow

BONUS VIDEOS!

Our 2nd talk:

Our 3rd talk:

Watch my video of Michael at his book-reading

Our 1st talk: A bonus video

You’ll ALSO hear Michael Imperioli and I get super-detailed about:

His favorite TV show of all time
Lee Strasberg
46th & 8th
Who his favorite actor (actress?) is
Which movies he admires most (Opening Night + Woman on the Influence)
Bradley Cooper
Gena Rowlands
Sally Field
Spike Lee – An analysis! A discussion!
David Chase
Summer of Sam
American Dad
Seinfeld
Schitt’s Creek
Eugene Levy
Catherine O’Hara
Dan Levy
Second City – Bobby Bittman
The Honeymooners
Jordan Peele
Get Out
Cold War
BlacKKKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Do the Right Thing
Green Book
Driving Miss Daisy
She’s Gotta Have It
School Daze
We break down Spike Lee – BIG TIME. Including Do the Right Thing AND MY meeting with Spike.
PS I recently wrote a piece with Spike Lee for the NYT. Check it out.
“You just saw this guy’s genius in every frame.” — Michael Imperioli about Spike Lee’s first film, She’s Gotta Have It
Tribeca Film Festival
The Godfather
Radio City Music Hall
Insecurities and misinterpretations
Projection
Marty Scorsese
The Carlyle
Bonding on film sets + The Sopranos, being intimately involved + then never seeing them again
John Ventimiglia, who played Artie Bucco
Sharon Angela, who played Rosalie Aprile
The film he directed, The Hungry Ghosts
Living on the road, like Puerto Rico, Detroit, Portugal, LA
Shooting a pilot for NBC
The Perfume Burned His Eyes
Doing his book tour and why he loves doing readings, like in Rome, at the Forum
His Italian roots
A literary festival in Salerno
Lille, France
Paris
Best literary festival he’s ever been to is Calabash in Jamaica
Why he doesn’t have any hobbies
Why a lot of the stuff he’s done didn’t make him any money
Chez Josephine
Exterminator Chili restaurant – now Belle Reve https://www.bellerevenyc.com/
The Simpsons
Getting paid scale for a guest spot even as an established actor – and why it’s insulting
Residuals
Seymour Cassel
John Cassavetes