Alec Baldwinnever stopped believing that he would be the guy to axe Tony Soprano.

Baldwin also shared a story of Gandolfini moaning about the early (4 a.m.!)

call times for his work onThe Sopranos,calling the job a “pain in the ass.”

Alec Baldwin; THE SOPRANOS

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“And the door opens and it’s David Chase.

This is my introduction to David Chase.

And he goes, ‘Alec Baldwin?

And I think based on that alone, I was never cast on your show.

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