Tony literally makes you an offer you can’t refuse. He’s always there for you, for everybody. So when he asks you to be there for sick children, you’re there. Period.

Geographically, economically and culturally, they grew up kind of similar.

I knew it was going to be good. But you don’t know that everyone else is going to think so, or that so many people would think so.

We take ’em to dinner. Lots of rituals revolve around food, as you saw. When you’re asked to dinner, it’s not such a good thing.

But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We’re all smoking right now in fact.

Put a gangster and a junkie together and you get a junkie gangster, and you get nominated, there you go.

I find a lot of similarities just in the basic genetic makeup of these guys, of Christopher Moltisanti [his character on the HBO show] and Nick Falco [his role on ‘Law & Order’],

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We take them to dinner… When you’re asked to dinner, it’s not such a good thing. Remember that.

When he started, Christopher was really like a kid. He’s had, over the years, more and more adult responsibilities and adult experiences. He’s kind of closed some of the generation gap with Tony. But to...