I was ‘scared s–tless’ working on ‘The Sopranos’

Nearly a decade earlier than he created “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda had a blink-and-you’ll miss it role on “The Sopranos”.

Now the Tony-winner, 42, is talking out about his expertise working alongside the late James Gandolfini on the HBO mob sequence.

“He was by no means locked up on this trailer,” Miranda mentioned of Gandolfini in Judd Apatow’s new e book, “Sicker within the Head: Extra Conversations About Life and Comedy.”

“He [Gandolfini] was simply out, and other people would speak to him,” Miranda added, noting the actor’s kindness.

Miranda secured the function of a bellhop boy in an episode for the sixth season of the present, which was filmed again in 2007.

On the time, he was a struggling younger actor, searching for main roles.

“I went on numerous voiceover auditions and appearing auditions, and the one factor I booked was ‘The Sopranos’ as a bellboy,” Miranda recalled in Apatow’s e book. “I’m so inexperienced [new to the industry] you may see me look down at my mark. Watch it in case you get an opportunity, as a result of now persons are like, ‘Lin-Manuel’s cameo on “The Sopranos”!’ It wasn’t a cameo. I wasn’t even within the union but.’”

Miranda mentioned he was “scared s – – tless” about his tiny function on the present, however Gandolfini helped alleviate his nerves.

“My one story about Gandolfini was that he stayed and did his sides although it was the tip of the night time. He had no want to do this,” he said. “He stayed and did the scene for the scared-s – – tless Puerto Rican child within the bellhop outfit.”

Miranda isn’t the one one who has recalled the actor’s beneficiant spirit on set.

In response to final 12 months’s e book “Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers,” he gifted every of his castmates $33,000 after an HBO contract negotiation.

Following the 51-year-old Emmy-winner’s premature loss of life in June 2013, co-star Steve Schirripa spoke in regards to the actor’s good deed.

“Pretty much as good of an actor as he was, he was a greater man. A beneficiant man. The man gave us $33,000 every — 16 folks,” the 64-year-old mentioned in an interview with New York’s WFAN radio station again in 2013. “In Season 4 he referred to as each one of many common solid members and gave us a verify. He mentioned, ‘Thanks for sticking by me.’ It’s like shopping for 16 folks a automotive.”