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Michael Imperioli, still best known for his Emmy-winning performance as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos, has recently offered his take on how the iconic HBO drama’s characters might fit into today’s political landscape. The actor told The Independent that if the series were set in the current United States and characters’ political views were part of the story, “a lot” of them would likely align with Donald Trump’s politics.
Imperioli pointed to the show’s central theme of the American Dream through the eyes of immigrants, which helped make The Sopranos one of television’s most influential dramas. He said that while the Sopranos gang were Italians whose families came over from Europe, their values might surprisingly skew toward Trump’s worldview if they were around right now.
“I think that would be one of the big themes if it was made today: the current climate in the U.S. and what they’re doing to immigrants,” Imperioli said. “The fact is that these characters are all immigrants, but I think a lot of them would probably be Trump supporters, oddly enough. So how do they reconcile those things? When Italians came over – and people forget this, or they don’t want to see it – a lot of them were undocumented.”
Sopranos creator David Chase has previously shared his thoughts on whether Tony Soprano himself would have been charmed by Trump, telling The New York Times that Tony would think Trump was “full of shit.”
Along with Steve Schirripa, who played Bobby Baccalieri on Chase’s acclaimed series, Imperioli has been out promoting the U.K. tour of the Talking Sopranos rewatch podcast, with both recalling fond memories of working with their late co-star, James Gandolfini. Imperioli says that Gandolfini laughed off the idea of a Sopranos prequel after the show ended, remarking that, given the actors’ ages, it would have been a stretch. “I remember Jim was like, ‘What are we gonna do? Wear wigs and girdles like Star Trek?’”
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