06/23/2008 01:24:45 AM
THE SOPRANOS - GANDOLFINI WAS MORTUARY 'JESUS'
Caption: 'The Sopranos' producers. 2008 Producers Guild Awards - Pressroom - held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Los Angeles, California
THE SOPRANOS star JAMES GANDOLFINI was nicknamed JESUS after working in a New York City mortuary to research for a movie role - because no one died.
The actor volunteered working night shifts in the city morgue, handling corpses as they arrived from crime scenes and hospitals.
But Gandolfini was left with nothing to do, because his stint coincided with a drought of deaths.
He explains, "They started to call me Jesus Christ because no one would die in New York City."
06/23/2008 01:24:45 AM
Also see: The Sopranos - James Gandolfini
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