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According to David Chase, it was Tony Sirico who convinced the actor to change his lines on The Sopranos because his character Paulie, a gang captain and ruthless killer, was called that way.

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January 29, 2024

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Just don’t call him a tyrant. According to David Chase, it was Tony Sirico who convinced the actor to change his lines on The Sopranos because his character Paulie, a gang captain and ruthless killer, was called that way. It was only when he was really upset. Reddit’s rabbit hole is full of popular Sirico stories, rumors, legends, and near-fables like this one. He claimed he would refuse to play his part if Paulie ever turned rat. Upon first meeting new writer Terence Winter, Sirico told him, if he was killed off, “First I die, then you die.”

Sirico did not allow anyone to do his hair and would often wake up in the middle of the night to do and style his hair at home before coming to set. He was famously fond of copious amounts of cologne and binaka, but it wasn’t just for his body or mouth, and anyone who shared that line might be given a spray to “blow away the smell.” While filming The Pine Barrens in West Point, he sent a PA back two hours to Brooklyn to retrieve his favorite pillow. Believing that celebrities like himself could be targets of the post-9/11 anthrax scare, he microwaved all his mail, assuming this would kill chemical weapons agents as well. It started to heat up. Back in the day, he used to give wedgies to Jimi Hendrix while bouncing at the Cafe Wha? But, hey, “remember when” is the lowest form of conversation.