James Gandolfini's Sopranos Career

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The stress of The Sopranos had weighed on James Gandolfini from the beginning.

He would sometimes take a few days off, whatever, but he always came back.

The crew would do what they could: establish shots, maybe, or coverage of his scene partners over his stand-in’s shoulder, with Gee reading his lines.

The Sopranos creator David Chase was often exhausted as well.

The absences became cyclical over the next couple of seasons .

“I’m not sane at all when I'm doing the show,” Gandolfini said in a 2001 interview.

Edie Falco would frequently come to the set after a morning of chemotherapy only to discover her costar was MIA .

The late days and absences continued through the run of The Sopranos.

The more the pressures of the show and the darkness of the character were rattling around inside Gandolfini , the more he would require an escape hatch.

“ Jim did not spend a lot of time, I don't think, attending to his own mental health,” says one costar.

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