James Gandolfini’s Secret Intervention: What Really Happened After He Shouted “Fire Me!”

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James Gandolfini’s Secret Intervention: What Really Happened After He Shouted “Fire Me!”

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By now, most fans have heard whispers about intervention — the real-life moment when James Gandolfini walked into a room full of family, co-stars and HBO executives, realized what was happening, and stormed out with a furious “Fire me!”

For years it was half-myth, half-rumour.

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The new documentary finally puts it on the record — and what it reveals about Gandolfini’s state of mind, and the way the show survived it, is both painful and weirdly moving.

The “ambush” at Chris Albrecht’s apartment

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