Michael Imperioli recalls his initial reaction to TheSopranos' pilot script, revealing he wasn't sold on the HBO show at first. 'Are people gonna wanna watch a show about mobsters? Are they gonna watch a TV show with sex, violence, and profanity?'
Michael Imperioli, who memorably portrayed Christopher on The Sopranos, wasn't all that impressed with the HBO show's pilot. It was, of course, in that debut episode that viewers meet James Gandolfini's indelible Tony Soprano. As written and directed by series creator David Chase, mobster Tony has been referred to the psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Melfi after he has a panic attack.
When I read the pilot, I wasn’t like ‘This is gonna change television.’ I mean, it was okay! I’m not being facetious, really. The idea of a series on HBO did not have any prestige to actors at all at that time—it actually was the opposite. Being on a series didn’t really interest me, because I had mostly done movies and plays.
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