There is a haunting symmetry between James Gandolfini and his famed character Tony Soprano — a mirror that reveals the actor’s hidden turmoil through the lens of the mob boss’s darkness. Fans often note how Tony’s struggles with binge-eating, addiction, panic and moral emptiness echoed in Gandolfini’s off-screen life.
On set, the pressures mounted. A crew member recounted that by the later seasons of The Sopranos his drinking and unreliability became harder to ignore — “he stayed out all night in Atlantic City and showed up four hours late.
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