David Chase on disappearing #Gandolfini during The #Sopranos shoots:
' “Well, fortunately, I wasn’t the one who dealt with him going missing,” he replies. “That was Ilene Landress, our line manager. She was the one who found out where he was and did everything that needed to be done.” '
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' “He never refused to do anything. He never said, ‘I’m gonna go wait in my trailer, and when you’re ready to shoot it the way I want it, come get me.’ That never happened.” '

‘I wrote The Sopranos to get over my mother wishing me dead’: David Chase on his mob masterpiece – and his new LSD epic
Will the great TV writer ever top his mega hit? He talks us through his new series about the CIA’s attempts to weaponise LSD – and reveals why James Gandolfini called him ‘Satan’

