Jennifer Esposito rejected ‘The Sopranos’ audition a number of occasions: ‘I can’t relive this’

Jennifer Esposito admitted she refused to audition for “The Sopranos.”

The 50-year-old actor mirrored on how she grew up within the middle of organized crime in Staten Island and didn’t need to bear in mind the harrowing occasions.

“I selected to not go up for it once they would name me in as a result of it was like ‘I can’t relive this,’” Esposito mentioned throughout an interview with Selection.

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“The ladies I grew up round needed to kill me, needed to kill me day-after-day…it was PTSD.”

The “Blue Bloods” star recalled being crammed with “anger and rage” throughout her childhood.

“Staten Island is identical Staten Island from once I left once I was 18 years previous,” she continued. 

“It’s nonetheless the identical place. It is advisable to perceive that nothing leaves this island. It’s a really unusual time warp of a spot.”

Esposito confessed she did have a couple of regrets about not auditioning for “The Sopranos” after it grew to become a legendary sequence.

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“They needed me to return in a couple of occasions for sure issues, and I used to be like, ‘No. The best way you’re portraying Italian tradition? Oh, recover from your self. Actually?’” Esposito mentioned. 

“It was an incredible present. However you’re a child. You don’t see that. After all, I look again, and it’s like, ‘That was silly.’”

What Esposito did take pleasure in in regards to the hit crime drama, was a sure character.

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“The one factor that used to make me loopy in regards to the present once I did watch it was the character of Meadow as a result of she was very good.”

Acknowledged as one in all tv’s important dramas, David Chase’s “The Sopranos” adopted James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano — husband, father, and mob boss. The sequence aired for six seasons.

After she rejected the favored mob present, Esposito went on to star in different tv hits, together with “Spin Metropolis” and the Oscar-winning movie “Crash.”

At the moment, Esposito is ready to make her directorial debut in an indie drama titled “Recent Kills.”

The movie focuses on two sisters and their mom dealing with life modifications as the ladies’ mafia boss father goes to jail.

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