Michael Imperioli has revealed the scenes from The Sopranos he discovered the “most brutal” and “tough” to shoot.

The actor, who performed Christopher Moltisanti within the HBO collection, recalled filming his loss of life scene by the hands of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) within the present’s remaining season.

“That wasn’t actually brutal in any respect, I’ll be trustworthy with you,” Imperioli informed the Guardian. “After we shot it, it wasn’t my final day both as a result of we shot out of sequence.”

The actor went onto clarify that the scenes the place his character needed to be bodily abusive to Adriana (Drea de Matteo) have been probably the most difficult.

“Probably the most brutal, tough stuff for me is when Christopher needed to be bodily abusive with Adriana, for apparent causes,” he added.

“On a technical stage, you’re making an attempt to be actually cautious so that you don’t harm the particular person. However having to get to that time of violence in the direction of a lady, you need to go to some nasty locations to get there. Typically it’s very fast. Typically it’s one thing current in your life you can faucet into. Typically you need to go someplace from the previous. And typically you need to go to someplace imaginary.

“It’s a lot simpler capturing a mobster or capturing heroin. That stuff to me will not be tough. However that stuff along with her was. Typically you’ll use stunt doubles, typically not. And even then, it’s one factor to choreograph and rehearse it, then once you act it full-tilt with all of the emotion, it’s simple to not have as a lot management as within the rehearsal. So you actually must be fairly cautious.”

Chatting with Vulture in 2021, de Matteo mentioned her co-star Imperioli struggled with the violent scenes between them.

“He had a tough time with plenty of the violence that season,” de Matteo mentioned. “One time he needed to seize me by my hair and drag me throughout the room utilizing a harness. However the harness broke. I used to be sitting on the ground and crying, as a result of I’m within the second, and at last informed him, ‘I’m not going to sit down right here and wait. You’re dragging me by my hair and also you’re going to be comfortable with it.’ He mentioned, ‘I can’t do this.’ And I mentioned, ‘Sure, you’ll be able to.’ And we did it.”

The Sopranos got here to an finish in 2007 after six seasons. A prequel movie, The Many Saints Of Newark, was launched in 2021.

Since The Sopranos, Imperioli has starred in initiatives like The White Lotus, The Pretty Bones and One Night time In Miami.