“I didn’t tell them that because I wanted the job and in one of the takes I actually back up into a tree and smashed up the back of the Lexus,” Imperioli, who recently launched the Talking Sopranos podcast, tells Page Six. “We all jumped forward, the air bags came out, smoke, it was a big disaster and I was thinking (James Gandolfini) must be thinking I’m an idiot, this is going to be a disaster, they’re going to fire me. And he just looks at me and starts cracking up laughing and we both just broke down hysterically and I thought, ‘Ok this is going to be a good ride. That was a bonding moment.”
TOPICS: Michael Imperioli, HBO, The Sopranos, Retro TV