TV mob boss James Gandolfini took a break from filming his hit HBO series, “The Sopranos,'’ yesterday to flog his raunchy musical, “Romance & Cigarettes,'’ here at the 52nd Annual Venice Film Festival.
Also making the red carpet scene at yesterday’s world premiere of John Turturro’s latest flick – about a long-married couple thrown into crisis by the hubby’s affair with a British tart – was the director himself along with co-stars Susan Sarandon and Aida Turturro. The tart, Kate Winslet, was MIA from the premiere.
For Gandolfini, playing a construction worker who bursts into song wasn’t planned as a way to escape Tony Soprano’s sizable shadow on his career.
“When I read the script it was so original and so different and it made me laugh so much, I didn’t think of changing or going away from Tony Soprano,'’ he said. “I don’t look at things like that. I thought it was wonderful so I wanted to do it.'’
But don’t be looking for Gandolfini to be hoofing in “The Producers'’ on Broadway anytime soon!
“You can ask Tricia Brouk, the choreographer, about my future in dance,'’ he laughed. “It’s absolutely zero. I found a new respect for dancers in every way. I had no idea how difficult it was and how strong you have to be.'’
In “Romance,'’ Susan Sarandon gives her cheating spouse the old heave-ho. What about in real life?
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