James Gandolfini’s portrayal of Tony Soprano was key to the success of “The Sopranos,” but breathing life into the menacing mobster’s character may have taken a toll on the actor.
Gandolfini’s struggles with drugs and alcohol are widely known. Before he died in 2013, friends and family members were desperate for him to seek help. At one point, former HBO CEO Chris Albrecht staged an intervention.
“We did an intervention with him at my apartment in New York,” Albrecht recalled in the new Max docuseries “Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos,” according to Entertainment Weekly. “That was to try to get him to go to a facility for rehab. We’d had a lot of friction by that point, and the ruse was that I was inviting Jimmy over so we could talk things through and kind of clear the air.”
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