Jolt Country

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 8:04 pmAnother Sopranos guy? Are there any left at this point?

pinback wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:28 amMan, you better know your gangsters mister, because you sure don't.

• James Gandolfini • Tony Soprano • 86 episodes • d. 2013
• Lorraine Bracco • Dr. Jennifer Melfi • 71 episodes • Not dead
• Edie Falco • Carmela Soprano • 85 episodes • Not dead
• Michael Imperioli • Christopher Moltisanti • 83 episodes • Not dead
• Dominic Chianese • Junior Soprano • 55 episodes • Not dead
• Steven Van Zandt• Silvio Dante • 79 episodes • Not dead
• Tony Sirico • Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri • 74 episodes • d. July 6, 2022
• Robert Iler • A.J. Soprano • 76 episodes • Not dead
• Jamie-Lynn Sigler • Meadow Soprano • 73 episodes • Not dead
• * Aida Turturro • Janice Soprano • 53 episodes • Not dead
• * Steve Schirripa • Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri • 53 episodes • Not dead

AArdvark wrote: Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:53 pm What was that? What just happened?

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:16 pm How come [Paul Sorvino] wasn't on The Sopranos?

Tdarcos wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 4:06 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:16 pm How come [Paul Sorvino] wasn't on The Sopranos?

Very good question!

From the World Headquarters of Viridian Development Corporation in Arlington, Virginia, here are the Top 10 reasons a performer doesn't appear in a show:
10. They're dead.
9. They are retired from acting.
8. It's too soon (or they're too exhausted) after playing a grueling part in an earlier project, or their significant other objects for right now.
7. Wrong color for a race-specific role (would you expect a white man to play the starring role in a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr?) or gender (would you expect a white man to play the the starring role in a movie about Bette Davis?).
6. Role is out of character (would you believe Fred Rogers playing the starring role in a movie about Jeffrey Dahmer?) or would taint them (playing a sadisic mass murderer, rapist, or mattress tag remover, etc.)
5. Role doesn't pay enough or they're not desperate enough to take it.
4. They're busy doing something else or they have contractual obligations that prohibit it.
3. Objects to working with the director, producer, co-star, or for a comercial, don't like the sponsor or object to its practices.
2. They're not a good fit for the role, or can't or won't make the effort to gain or lose weight or whatever is necessary to look like the character.

And now, the #1 reason a performer doesn't appear in a show:
1. They weren't asked to appear on the show.

Cymbal strike, band plays segment from "You Won't see me" by Anne Murray.