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Dominic Chianese Discusses 'The Sopranos'

Aired March 2, 2001 - 2:38 p.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: "The Sopranos" may be television's hottest drama, and the show kicks off its third season Sunday. Lou Waters can hardly wait for that event.

Laurin Sydney is in New York now with one of the shows stars.

LAURIN SYDNEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. For fans of the HBO hit mob series "The Sopranos," the wait is finally over. Tony and his crime family are back for a third season, kicking off with a two-hour premiere on Sunday night.

Here's a peek.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "THE SOPRANOS")

JAMES GANDOLFINI, ACTOR: Why do you do this to me?

DOMINIC CHIANESE, ACTOR: Because I'm the boss of this family. You forget.

GANDOLFINI: I forget nothing. Don't make me say things to you we'll both regret.

CHIANESE: Go ahead. I'm (EXPLETIVE DELETED) fed up.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SYDNEY: Joining us now to tell us who is back and who is whacked is Uncle Junior, Dominic Chianese.

CHIANESE: Thanks, Laurin. It's good to be back.

SYDNEY: And first, let's say that I did not whack you. The black eye was an accident.

CHIANESE: Yes. The sidewalk just decided to hit me yesterday.

SYDNEY: But the tough guy fought back.

CHIANESE: Oh, gosh. And they took good care of me at Lennox (ph) Hill. Great care of me.

SYDNEY: Sunday night, big premiere, but it's going to be bittersweet with the loss of Nancy Marchand... CHIANESE: Exactly.

SYDNEY: ... in these first two episodes.

CHIANESE: Yes, yes. As David Chase put it, the show will never be the same without Nancy. And we'll try to fill it up with, you know, love and good work. Yeah, it's bittersweet, all right, because she was much loved and much appreciated for her great talent.

SYDNEY: And yet David Chase figured out a way with technology to actually put Nancy into the episode?

CHIANESE: This is going to be shown somehow. Yeah, I think you won't be able to detect it, but it is there. You heard about that, yeah. It's in the premiere episode. So Nancy would have loved it.

SYDNEY: Very special.

CHIANESE: Yeah.

SYDNEY: Throughout this coming year -- I know that you can't give any secrets away, because I'll find myself in the East River, but are Uncle Junior and Tony going to become closer at all this next season?

CHIANESE: Did you see any good movies lately?

(LAUGHTER)

SYDNEY: OK. You can't tell me that. Can you tell me about the new cast member?

CHIANESE: I can't tell you anything, because if I do, then I break my promise to David. And I love David. He's a great guy, you know? And I promised I wouldn't say anything that I'm not supposed to say.

But let me give you a little hint about the show.

SYDNEY: OK.

CHIANESE: I think -- I think it's going to be fun, and it's going to be fun to watch. I know it is, especially with the new people.

SYDNEY: Tons of surprises?

CHIANESE: Tons, tons of surprise. It's like the sidewalk (UNINTELLIGIBLE) me. That was a surprise yesterday.

SYDNEY: I know one movie that you can talk about is your new indie film on the Internet called "The White Rose."

CHIANESE: I'd love to talk about that, Laurin. This is a labor of love that Nathan Nazario, and I decided to do one day about a year and a half ago, I think. It was at the independent film festival down in Angelica, and I ran into Nathan. We were just chatting. And I said Nazario, I says, Spanish name, isn't it? He said yes.

Do you know there is a statue of Jose Marti on Sixth Avenue, 57th Street? And he says yes, and he's listening to me. I said, I've always wanted to sing "Juan Tana Mater" (ph) and do something with that statue. I can't explain it. I'm a New Yorker, you know, and I said, I always liked that statue. Even as a child, I could see him coming off his horse.

And he said, well, let's talk about it. Next thing I know, about three days later, I get a script, four-day script. He says, let's do it.

SYDNEY: So I say, as a producer and director, let's do it, Dominic. Can you a little bit for us?

CHIANESE: Oh, yeah, sure.

SYDNEY: And this can be seen on the Net on unlimited cinema.

CHIANESE: That's what it is. The details I'll leave it to Nathan to tell you about it. But it will be on the Internet, yes: Alwaysi.com.

SYDNEY: Terrific.

CHIANESE: I am a simple man from the land of the palm trees. Before dying, all I want to do is share some poems of my soul.

SYDNEY: Thank you for sharing with us. We'll be watching Sunday and on the Net.

CHIANESE: Good to be here, Laurin.

SYDNEY: And we hope that you'll be watching when "Showbiz Today Report" returns, right after these messages.

Bravo!

CHIANESE: Thank you.

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