Sopranos star Michael Imperioli was offered a lesson in the “correct way” to execute a mafia hit by a real-life mobster.
The actor, 58, played psychotic drug-addled gangster Christopher Moltisanti on the mob show from 1999 to 2007. He revealed gangsters started to mistake him for one of their own on the streets.
Michael said he was with his reformed mafia “made guy” co-star Tony Sirico, 79, at a New York restaurant popular with mobsters.
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A Cosa Nostra killer, who he said was a “made man”, approached and offered to show them the “right” method for strangling someone using piano wire.
Michael said: “I told him, maybe after dessert might be a better time. It remained unfulfilled, but it’s easily imagined.”
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In The Sopranos, Michael’s character’s mafia boss uncle Tony Soprano, played the late James Gandolfini, is seen strangling a “snitch” with wire.
Michael’s heroin-addicted Chris is also seen gunning down and chopping up a series of victims during the series. The actor also said he first became fixated on the mafia when he was a schoolboy after watching The Godfather.
He then spent years researching the mob’s families when he starred as mob lackey Spider in Martin Scorsese’s mafia epic Goodfellas.
The Emmy-winning performer, who is also the guitarist in the indie band Zopa and a novelist, is now narrating the three-part Sky documentary American Godfathers: The Five Families, which tells of mafia history.
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