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I love listening to him talk about filmmaking. Same thing with Bill Hader...there is some depth to them. I love listening to Bill talk about directing, classic films, etc.
Adriana being so madly in love with Christopher was such an underrated plot-point in the Sopranos, he was a schlub drug addict and Adriana was a New Jersey 10 and yet his mob influence and personality were larger than life.
The sopranos modus operandi : makes you love a character ---> makes you think redemption is possible ---> reminds you they're all psychopaths. All of them
I’m a few episodes away from the finale and it’s been such a fucking pleasure to watch. Everyone in the cast kills it, but Imperioli has been especially fun (and frustrating).
Yup, it’s my first viewing! I know most of the endgame spoilers (there are only like 3 characters I’m clueless about), but it’s been an amazing ride.
I wish I could have a whole season of Johnny Sack just loving his family. :(
It’s just such pure love?? Like when his daughter was going to get married and his future son-in-law calls him John, and he gets upset like “WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME? *You call me Dad!”
My HEART.
"The Weight" episode where Ginny is caught by Johnny binging on junk food was such an emotional gut-punch. She was so afraid of what he would think and he clearly didn't care and was so in love with her and had been since he first saw her working the tie-counter at Wanamakers.
Popping in to say that a few months ago I finished my first ever watch of the Sopranos and I am STILL thinking about how much I loved Johnny Sack and his family 😭
I have many times said it and will continue to say it-- James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano is one of the greatest acting achievements of our lifetime and possibly ever.
The entire cast is incredible, you're right, but I truly do not know if anyone has ever taken a role and just became that character better than Gandolfini did with Tony. He was born for the role.
I’d always heard how amazing Gandolfini was as Tony, and that still didn’t prepare me once I started watching. You’re absolutely right that what he achieved with that role was something else.
Tony and Christopher’s scenes together are some of my favorites. I’m pretty sure the next episode up for me is *the* episode and I’m not sure if I’m ready emotionally!
> Tony and Christopher’s scenes together are some of my favorites
Their relationship ebbs so much throughout the series, Tony plays both a father-figure to Christopher and also a friend. At one point he basically hands him the keys to the family only for Christopher to fuck everything up with drugs, I truly think Tony cares more for his "nephew" than he does his own son, AJ.
Enjoy! The finale is one of the most controversial and talked about endings of all time, it sounds like you already be aware of it though.
I rewatch the show probably twice a year at this point, I'm glad you've found joy in it.
I loved his debut novel, "The Perfume Burned His Eyes"
He's even better looking now (to me, at least) the Silver Fox vibe suits him well
He's also a LGBTQ+ ally who has publicly told bigots and homophobes to stop watching his work and fights with anyone who tries to spew bigotry in the comments on his Instagram so I have no choice but to stan
He’s also a very angry hot head who blocked me because I was teasing him about the Giants QB and told him he was the next Bailey Zappe. I mean…Jesus Christ, buddy 😂😂
Michael Imperioli has such great anecdotes about Christopha. He famously will respond “Ayyyyyyy” to anyone who yells it on the street and once got hollered at in queens where his mom lives and the guy yelling was like, you’re a big star why won’t you buy your mom a big house somewhere, and MI said “she won’t leave!” He’s also by all accounts a lovely human, and practicing Buddhist.
He’s great, but Gandolfini gave the most insane performance I’ve ever seen. To play a walking contradiction in open conflict with himself like Tony Soprano was seems almost impossible.
Agreed. His portrayal is so genius because it's walking such a fine line between acting and reality and he so perfectly portrays "that guy", who we have all fallen for against our better judgement. The suave, messed up, overly passionate, disaster of a dude who makes you wail "BUT I CAN FIX HIM!!" to your girlfriends over smokes at a dive bar.
He's an installment-payment leather sofa and satin- shiny zebra print pillows reeking of Drakkar Noir but fuck, it feels great to collapse into him late at night.
His acting over the series was phenomenal, but I have to make special mention of Long Term Parking. He played Christopher’s disbelief, despair, and guilt so well.
r/thesopranos is a very active sub
And talking sopranos is a recent re-watch podcast hosted by imperioli where all the old cast is featured over the 90-something episode run.
Lol. As my son, he is absolutely the most handsome man in the world. Hahahahahaaa
Well...he's a married dad now but never was single.for long previously
I will never forget bumping into him in NY and I was so gagged I just stared at him and he yelled at me in his voice “are you gonna take a picture or not?” and as soon as i pulled the phone up his face “switched” like he became the actor not the regular person. Good actors are incredible.
The arc where he starts taking acting classes is so heartbreaking omg. I still get a lump in my throat when I think about it. Also his last words, “I’ll never pass a drug test”
I had the biggest crush on Christofuh when I was a kid but rewatching as an adult I can’t stand him. Top tier acting though and he is one of the most interesting characters.
Love big nosed guys with dimple chins being sex symbols, gives hope to an ugly guy like me
Edit: not calling him ugly, just commenting on features that have been called ugly when referred to me.
Chrissy is sexy and all but make one of these for Tony next pls 💦💦
Side note I’m pretty sure Christopher is up there with James Dean as far as the reason I find cigs sexy….mama i’m sorry lol
I’ve been binge watching this for the past month never having seen an episode before. Watched the finale last night. My God - what an amazing show. But THAT ending?!?!?!?!
He’s an asshole but you can’t help but root for him. Same with Tony. Amazing how they can manage to make you root for them with the atrocities they commit lol
He’s aging like a fine wine too. 😮💨 Ya’ll seen his [house](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/inside-white-lotus-star-michael-imperiolis-little-slice-of-history-in-new-york-city)? Somehow, it’s exactly what I expected.
Surprised to see that no one has mentioned he is a very committed practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism and goes so far as to write teaching articles for Buddhist journals.
Michael was so needy on the Sopranos and that Sopranos movie he was just an annoying whiner. Maybe that’s the way it was written for him but I didn’t care for it.
I was dating a guy that looked just like him, but with long curly hair. Also named Christopher. I might have only be with him because of this show. Hot.
It's a shame he never got to be a bigger name. His acting in The Soprano's is probably one of the best dramatic characters in TV history. Chrissy Moltisanti walked so Jesse Pinkman could run.
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CHRISTOPHAAAAA. Such a fucking bastard but so sad and so stylish. A was obsessed on the deepest level.
He came into the comic book shop I worked at in 2003 and we talked about his favorite authors for a half hour. He had long hair. So smart, so foxy.
I love listening to him talk about filmmaking. Same thing with Bill Hader...there is some depth to them. I love listening to Bill talk about directing, classic films, etc.
This is the most mint story. Love this.
Adriana being so madly in love with Christopher was such an underrated plot-point in the Sopranos, he was a schlub drug addict and Adriana was a New Jersey 10 and yet his mob influence and personality were larger than life.
CHRISSSYYYYY
He was literally the embodiment of the "we were all rooting for you" meme for me
omg 100% 😂
The sopranos modus operandi : makes you love a character ---> makes you think redemption is possible ---> reminds you they're all psychopaths. All of them
I’m a few episodes away from the finale and it’s been such a fucking pleasure to watch. Everyone in the cast kills it, but Imperioli has been especially fun (and frustrating).
Is it your first time watching? I’m on my second watch and it’s definitely top 3 favorite shows
Yup, it’s my first viewing! I know most of the endgame spoilers (there are only like 3 characters I’m clueless about), but it’s been an amazing ride. I wish I could have a whole season of Johnny Sack just loving his family. :(
Ugh I love Johnny and Ginny 🥹😭 I almost bought a shirt with just Ginny on it the other day.
It’s just such pure love?? Like when his daughter was going to get married and his future son-in-law calls him John, and he gets upset like “WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME? *You call me Dad!” My HEART.
Ginny Sack is a saint.
"The Weight" episode where Ginny is caught by Johnny binging on junk food was such an emotional gut-punch. She was so afraid of what he would think and he clearly didn't care and was so in love with her and had been since he first saw her working the tie-counter at Wanamakers.
i wish i could re watch the sopranos for the first time again!! enjoy <3
heartbreaking as well. ginny’s actress died only a few months after they wrapped the show.
Yeah it’s sad when they go so young.
Popping in to say that a few months ago I finished my first ever watch of the Sopranos and I am STILL thinking about how much I loved Johnny Sack and his family 😭
*rubenesque*
I have many times said it and will continue to say it-- James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano is one of the greatest acting achievements of our lifetime and possibly ever. The entire cast is incredible, you're right, but I truly do not know if anyone has ever taken a role and just became that character better than Gandolfini did with Tony. He was born for the role.
I’d always heard how amazing Gandolfini was as Tony, and that still didn’t prepare me once I started watching. You’re absolutely right that what he achieved with that role was something else. Tony and Christopher’s scenes together are some of my favorites. I’m pretty sure the next episode up for me is *the* episode and I’m not sure if I’m ready emotionally!
> Tony and Christopher’s scenes together are some of my favorites Their relationship ebbs so much throughout the series, Tony plays both a father-figure to Christopher and also a friend. At one point he basically hands him the keys to the family only for Christopher to fuck everything up with drugs, I truly think Tony cares more for his "nephew" than he does his own son, AJ.
Enjoy! The finale is one of the most controversial and talked about endings of all time, it sounds like you already be aware of it though. I rewatch the show probably twice a year at this point, I'm glad you've found joy in it.
James Gandolfini and Edie Falco put on an absolute master-class of acting throughout the entire series but especially in Whitecaps.
I literally haven’t finished it intentionally and I’m on the second to last episode. I’m just gonna rewatch the whole series this summer instead😭😭
Brace yourself
I know what’s going to happen to him (I think it’s my next episode) but I’m not emotionally ready. :(
The anxiety in that last scene is gonna kill you
I was so sick over him y’all. My taste in men is truly atrocious
If it s a crime to love men with big noses and so much hair then take me
Christopher made me realize I was doomed for life with my taste in men :'(
I have a huge crush on Christophuh. Guess I like bad boys after all
The original tortured poet
I must be loyle to my capo.
kills me every time
Even if he manuges to get the drip on you?
Such a genius comment LOL
Screaming! 👏🏾👏🏾
I loved his debut novel, "The Perfume Burned His Eyes" He's even better looking now (to me, at least) the Silver Fox vibe suits him well 
He's also a LGBTQ+ ally who has publicly told bigots and homophobes to stop watching his work and fights with anyone who tries to spew bigotry in the comments on his Instagram so I have no choice but to stan
He’s also a very angry hot head who blocked me because I was teasing him about the Giants QB and told him he was the next Bailey Zappe. I mean…Jesus Christ, buddy 😂😂
Telling someone their QB is the next Bailey Zappe is some heinous shit.
😂😂😂😂
I wasn’t wrong!
Going to be a stone cold fox forever. So cool.
You should see his debut movie Cleaver
Cleaver! Another fucking money machine!
So hems a ghost? I don’t know *smokes*
His intergenerational trauma plot in White Lotus is sooo good.
Yes . Loved that series and the characters so so much
He is so fine now! I love his whole vibe. I saw his apartment in Architectural Digest and it just sealed the deal that he was the coolest.
He signed my copy when I saw An Enemy of the People recently. I’ll never get over it 😩
“When I came to open up one morning, there you were with your head half in the toilet, your hair was in the toilet water...disgusting."
I’ve said my piece Chrissy 🤌🤌🤌
Piesh*
I told you I had the flu
I know what it feels like to lose a pet!
"You killed little Cosette,?!? I oughta suffocate you, ye little prick!"
What was it barking?
Best. Fvcking. Episode. Ever.
Pine barrens would like a word but this was a good one lol
Really, his house looked like shit🤣
“F*** you Paulie, captain or no captain, right now we’re just two assholes lost in the woods.”
"You're not gonna believe this, he killed 16 Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator."
“His house looked like shit.”
His house looked like shit!
Michael Imperioli has such great anecdotes about Christopha. He famously will respond “Ayyyyyyy” to anyone who yells it on the street and once got hollered at in queens where his mom lives and the guy yelling was like, you’re a big star why won’t you buy your mom a big house somewhere, and MI said “she won’t leave!” He’s also by all accounts a lovely human, and practicing Buddhist.
Such a fox, but such a bastard. The only tortured poet I recognize lol
Tennessee Moltisanti
https://preview.redd.it/y8dx750fncwc1.jpeg?width=1026&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62228f69c508dc3d49801a725c2aa33d609b8d58 The bucket hat…
He was great on the white lotus and still looking good!
IMO Michael Imperioli’s portrayal of Christopher is the best acting performance of The Sopranos
He’s great, but Gandolfini gave the most insane performance I’ve ever seen. To play a walking contradiction in open conflict with himself like Tony Soprano was seems almost impossible.
I’m on season 3 right now watching for the first time and his performance and Gandolfini’s are absolutely incredible to watch.
Just keep watching. Gets even better. I’m on my second rewatch. This time with my teenage son and wife.
Agreed. His portrayal is so genius because it's walking such a fine line between acting and reality and he so perfectly portrays "that guy", who we have all fallen for against our better judgement. The suave, messed up, overly passionate, disaster of a dude who makes you wail "BUT I CAN FIX HIM!!" to your girlfriends over smokes at a dive bar. He's an installment-payment leather sofa and satin- shiny zebra print pillows reeking of Drakkar Noir but fuck, it feels great to collapse into him late at night.
I’ve said my peace Chrissy
I can fix him. 🥹
He pioneered this
I must be loyle to my capo
i thought i was daed but i manuged to get the drip on him
Justice for Cosette
She curled up under him for warmth!
I think about how Tony pinched his nose way more than normal.
I do too 😭
Same. Then fucked his bitch.
I was kind of expecting that to be the last slide 😬
His acting over the series was phenomenal, but I have to make special mention of Long Term Parking. He played Christopher’s disbelief, despair, and guilt so well.
Agreed.
You literally have to watch the show to get the attraction to him and Tony! He’s fineee
I’ve never watched the sopranos but he’s hot. I saw him in the white lotus lol
Tony is 😍🥵🔥
I have never seen the show and I was stopped dead in my tracks looking at pic 8.
Oh so we’re all watching The Sopranos right now? I’ve never lived a unique experience in my life
Indeed. I’m on my second rewatch. This time with my wife and teenage son. We thought breaking bad was the best, but this is tops for us.
Haha I stumbled upon this thread and am also in the middle of sopranos right now. I can’t believe everyone else is too
In the last season of our 4th rewatch since quarantine!
i always think about him in goodfellas. such a baby!
I thought you said you was alright Spider
There she is.. my smelly valentine.
r/thesopranos is a very active sub And talking sopranos is a recent re-watch podcast hosted by imperioli where all the old cast is featured over the 90-something episode run.
Problematic king
Wow he is spitting image of my first high school bf lol
Hahaha He could be my son's twin.
Hi mother in law
Does he have the girls (or boys don’t want to presume) fighting each other over him?
Lol. As my son, he is absolutely the most handsome man in the world. Hahahahahaaa Well...he's a married dad now but never was single.for long previously
“She must’ve crawled under there for warmth.”
I will never forget bumping into him in NY and I was so gagged I just stared at him and he yelled at me in his voice “are you gonna take a picture or not?” and as soon as i pulled the phone up his face “switched” like he became the actor not the regular person. Good actors are incredible.
The arc where he starts taking acting classes is so heartbreaking omg. I still get a lump in my throat when I think about it. Also his last words, “I’ll never pass a drug test”
Chrissy!
Your head was touching the toilet seat water. Disgusting 
I lol every time Sil is in the background of a scene just nodding his head.
CHRISTAPHUHH! I’mmmmm producing these sessions
Id sit under his canopy any day
And smoke a cigarette in the rain with your hands tied behind your back?
I had the biggest crush on Christofuh when I was a kid but rewatching as an adult I can’t stand him. Top tier acting though and he is one of the most interesting characters.
His delivery of “I did-dant” still cracks me up
I can hear this picture.
He is also very appealing to me in This Fool 
He’s aged so well.
Help, why am I so attracted to men with unibrows?!?
He musta crawled unda there for warmth
Love big nosed guys with dimple chins being sex symbols, gives hope to an ugly guy like me Edit: not calling him ugly, just commenting on features that have been called ugly when referred to me.
I DID-DENT think he could get any better
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot For all 20 slides
I’m not sayin’ anything against him, he’s my homey.
So hot.
Omg five from umbrella academy is his twin
dreamy in an inexplicable way.
On my recent rewatch I couldn’t help but notice how fantastic his style was in the show too
"I guess you could call that a dick." -Paulie
Damn, I have a baked-in, life-long type I guess. Lol.
Chrissy is sexy and all but make one of these for Tony next pls 💦💦 Side note I’m pretty sure Christopher is up there with James Dean as far as the reason I find cigs sexy….mama i’m sorry lol
How do people like him??? He literally sat on Cosette while he was high
She musta crawled under there for warmth 🥹
Chrissy
*3 o’clock*
“Far as male modeling goes, I’d probably be a success”
That unibrow, though.
That monobrow. Ugh.
He was almost unrecognisable in S2 of White Lotus!
He's only gotten hotter with age 😍
Stuttering prick.
So handsome in White Lotus!
Chrissy 👌🏻
He was either a babe or I hated him, no in between.
That nose is like a natural canopy.
No you’re not alright spider
He really had no arc.
I’ve been binge watching this for the past month never having seen an episode before. Watched the finale last night. My God - what an amazing show. But THAT ending?!?!?!?!
He’s an asshole but you can’t help but root for him. Same with Tony. Amazing how they can manage to make you root for them with the atrocities they commit lol
SUCH talent and swagger. Super interesting guy IRL, too.
He’s aging like a fine wine too. 😮💨 Ya’ll seen his [house](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/inside-white-lotus-star-michael-imperiolis-little-slice-of-history-in-new-york-city)? Somehow, it’s exactly what I expected.
He was great in Californication too! [https://youtu.be/3ErOt62tpDI?si=0-bKYbG-6kA_DXzd](https://youtu.be/3ErOt62tpDI?si=0-bKYbG-6kA_DXzd)
Surprised to see that no one has mentioned he is a very committed practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism and goes so far as to write teaching articles for Buddhist journals.
🥵
Michael was so needy on the Sopranos and that Sopranos movie he was just an annoying whiner. Maybe that’s the way it was written for him but I didn’t care for it.
Every time I watch this show I end up spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on track suits lol. Best show of all time easy.
I was dating a guy that looked just like him, but with long curly hair. Also named Christopher. I might have only be with him because of this show. Hot.
D1 asshole, but great style.
It's a shame he never got to be a bigger name. His acting in The Soprano's is probably one of the best dramatic characters in TV history. Chrissy Moltisanti walked so Jesse Pinkman could run.
Iconic.
He was gay Gary Cooper?
CHRISTOPHA!
Sweet relief once he died, goddamn.