James Gandolfini ‘threatened to beat up Harvey Weinstein’

Steve Schirripa has revealed that his Sopranos co-star James Gandolfini once threatened to ‘beat the f***’ out of Harvey Weinstein.

The late Gandolfini starred in Killing Them Softly, a film distributed by the disgraced movie mogul’s company, back in 2012.

But the actor best known for playing Tony Soprano on the HBO mob hit took exception to Weinstein’s insistence that he promote the film on the talk show circuit.

‘He said, “Harvey Weinstein keeps calling, he wants me to do Letterman and I said no.” And he got f*cking nasty with Jim,’ recalled Schirripa on The Joe Rogan Experience. 

He continued, “And Jim said, ‘I will beat the f*** out of Harvey Weinstein! He f***ing calls me again, I will beat the f*** out of him! For the money he paid me, I’m not f***ing doing it!” Swear to God.’  

‘And this is before all the Harvey Weinstein s*** when he was still king s***.’ 

Schirripa, who played Bobby ‘Bacala’ Baccalieri on the mafia drama, was joined by co-star Michael Imperioli (Christopher Moltisanti) for the interview. 

Earlier in the interview, the actors had stressed that Gandolfini was nothing like his sociopathic, violent character on the acclaimed cable series. 

‘He wasn’t like that,’ stressed Imperioli, ‘He was more like a hippy.’ 

‘He wore Birkenstocks and like, a bandanna on his head… he didn’t really talk like that [character]’. 

Gandolfini passed away from a heart attack at age 51, back in 2013 while in Italy to receive an award at the Taormina Film Fest. 

Weinstein is currently serving time for third-degree rape and criminal sexual assault in the first degree.