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Alec Baldwin reveals the Sopranos role that got absent

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Everyone who has watched The Sopranos loves The Sopranos. There's a reason, after every, that it tops our list of the top-quality TV shows of all time. Single notable fan of the mobster show is Alec Baldwin – and, it turns out, the actor lobbied the HBO exhibit's creators to take on the man who would kill Tony Soprano.

Appearance happening Talking Sopranos podcast with hosts Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa – WHO played Chris Soprano and Bobby Baccalieri on the show – Baldwin revealed his failed attempt to appear on The Sopranos.

"I called up whoever it was, I forget, and I said, 'Tell them, when it's time to kill Jimmy [Gandolfini, WHO played Tony], tell them – this was early, before you rag the end – in that respect's just one man in this business World Health Organization should come in, wham Jimmy, and ride off with Edie [Genus Falco, WHO played Tony's wife, Carmela], and I am that military man,'" Baldwin recalled.

"I am the guy who needs to blow Jimmy away and take Edie, who I'm madly in love with, away. And they were like, 'Sure, great, we'll add your bring up to the list of all the Irish actors who call up that they should get on The Sopranos."

Baldwin never did get the call to appear connected the evidenc, perhaps because *spoilers* Tony doesn't go whacked in quite much an unmistakable way. In fact, whether Tony dies at all is leading for debate, as the Sopranos ending is particularly ambiguous, with some fans hating the infamous cut-to-dishonorable center through Journey's "Assume't Stop Believin'" patc others are united that, yes, Tony is dead.

Baldwin went happening to discuss the number one time he met David Chase: "I enter the bathroom of this super chic restaurant, take my jacket off, need my shirt off. I'm mopping the sweat up off my body, and I'm holding my shirt up to the mechanical drier. And the doorway opens – and it's David Chase. This is my introduction to David Chase. And he goes, 'Alec Baldwin? What the fuck are you doing drying your shirt in the john at the Iv Seasons restaurant?' And I conceive based on that alone, I was ne'er cast on your show. Ever."

Meanwhile, The Sopranos continues with the prequel the Many Saints of Newark, which is one of the most exciting upcoming movies coming later this year.

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