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RIP Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts - Sopranos)

cabbles
cabbles Posts: 15,254
in Not Sports Related
What a character.  RIP and sorry @Braziliance

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  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,738
    RIP. 
    A bad week for the Mob. 
  • The Prince-e-Paul
    The Prince-e-Paul Posts: 6,688
    Loved sopranos. Great character. Rip
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,219
    BBC News - Sopranos actor Tony Sirico dies aged 79
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    edited July 2022
    Very sad. Great characters he played. RIP
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,997
    Key character in the series RIP
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    edited July 2022
    Saw an interview with the cast earlier this year (think it was from 3 lrl.4 years ago, 20 year reunion), got the impression he was just as much of a character off screen!

    RIP Tony.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,499
    What a character in real life too!

    Apparently used to sunbathe by the pool at an expensive hotel and get himself paged by reception, so that people of influence would get to know his name! 

    The white wings in his hair took ages to to do. Nobody could touch the wings...not even the on-set stylist. Just him and the Brooklyn barber he used to go to.

    Go on YouTube and check out the Paulie Walnuts wing-o-meter, on Talking Sopranos. 
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    Loved his Paulie Walnuts.

    RIP. 
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Gave so much life to an incredible character. Was one of those characters and actors in the show that was so good you didn’t know if you were watching a serious drama or a brilliant comedy.

    so many quotable lines. “Oh!! It’s like an ad for a weight loss centre! Before! And wayyyyy before!”
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    RIP
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  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:
    Very sad. Great characters he plated. RIP
    Oh er.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    I am sure I heard someone say that he had done time before and that "Paulie's" stance was learned from then.  A position to easily defend yourself.  Interesting character that was part of a show that will always be watched and always be admired.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    great in that part .. R I P
  • Bilko
    Bilko Posts: 767
    Paulie was my favourite character RIP.
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,727
    Pointing with index and pinky extended in honour. RIP
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    Croydon said:
    Pointing with index and pinky extended in honour. RIP
    "OH!"
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    cfgs said:
    I am sure I heard someone say that he had done time before and that "Paulie's" stance was learned from then.  A position to easily defend yourself.  Interesting character that was part of a show that will always be watched and always be admired.
    I think he did his first acting class in prison and kept to the straight and narrow after that. Mind you, he had it in his contract that he'd never be asked to play a grass, or a "rat" as they say in the show, so he hadn't completely reinvented himself!

    Paulie was an amazing character, that mix of brutality and almost accidental comedy that made the show so watchable.

    RIP Mr Walnuts.
  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,353
    cabbles said:
    What a character.  RIP and sorry @Braziliance
    Absolutely gutted to find out earlier today, like the big man Gandolfini though, he will always be immortalised through his acting, they will always seem alive to me. 

    I did the Sopranos tour back in May and now it makes it feel that bit more special, will be having a drink for old Walnuts tonight, 

    RIP Tony Sirico

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