Right here's a type of uncommon situations the place you nearly need to get whacked by a gangster.

Actor Chris Diamantopoulos, who visitor starred on HBO's The Sopranos as Jason Barone, a household pal of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), recalled the time a scene involving a prop rubber pipe went incorrect and he "bought whacked by Paulie Walnuts and lived to inform about it."

Diamantopoulos appeared in 2006's "The Fleshy A part of the Thigh," the fourth episode of season 6. Unaware of his late father's mafia ties, Jason goes towards Tony's needs and is shortly hit (actually) with retribution: a go to from Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri (Tony Sirico) and a lead pipe.

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"Sirico had two pipes, a lead pipe and a rubber pipe, one to make use of when the digicam was on me, and one to make use of when the digicam was on him,” Diamantopoulos instructed PEOPLE in an interview, pegged to his position on Amazon's The Sticky. “Which one do you suppose he used on me the primary time? The reply is it wasn't the faux one."

"It was a ceremony of passage to be whacked by Paulie Walnuts," he added.

It's almost 26 years since The Sopranos first premiered on HBO in January of 1999, turning into a runaway hit that went on for six seasons. Newly minted Golden Globe nominee Cristin Milioti (HBO's The Penguin) recalled her personal expertise as a visitor star, taking part in John Sacrimoni's daughter Catherine. She admitted how she "ended up consuming the prop shrimp" as a result of she didn't understand what craft companies was.

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The present got here again into the dialog this previous 12 months when creator David Chase returned to New Jersey ice cream parlor Holsten’s, the place they filmed the ultimate scene of all the sequence. "Look who stopped by to go to us for the seventeenth anniversary of the ultimate episode!” reads the photograph caption on the Holsten’s social media account. “After we requested him what he thought in regards to the sales space, he stated, ‘It appears good!’”

Steve Schirripa, who performed Bobby "Baccala" Baccalieri, additionally took inspiration from his mobster position on The Sopranos for a latest Freshpet advert that debuted Christmas Day in the course of the Netflix NFL video games. The nostalgia remains to be alive and nicely.

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