Were the Sopranos' Steve Buscemi and James Gandolfini friends in real life?

Tony B. is the first cousin of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and a close childhood friend. However, given that Buscemi ...
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Steve Buscemi's Feature Directorial Debut Directly Influenced 'The Sopranos'

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...
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'The Sopranos' Would Be Nothing Without This This 29-Year-Old Underrated Steve Buscemi Movie

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
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Why the ‘Sopranos’ Creator Was Embarrassed to Ask Steve Buscemi to Join the Cast

In fact, performances in Miller’s Crossing (Coen Brothers, 1990) and Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992) had Buscemi on the radar of Hollywood’s top directors. That episode (starring Tony Sirico ...
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“Wednesday” star Steve Buscemi recalls his worst auditions with directors Barry Levinson and Mike Nichols

Steve Buscemi's had a lot of acting jobs, in such movies as Fargo and Ghost World and on TV series like Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos, but he claims that he's not any good auditions. Really. "I ...