Sarah Shahi swooned over her “hot” sex scene with the late James Gandolfini on The Sopranos.
“I did a sex scene with Tony Soprano,” the “Paradise” actress recently revealed on the “Boss Sticks” podcast about Gandolfini’s role on the hit HBO drama.
“I have to say it was the best kiss I’ve ever had,” she added.
“There was a scene where he was so hot…I remember thinking, ‘How can I get turned on by this big, 47-year-old bald guy?'” Nothing…How is this going to work? Oh, it worked for me!
Mr. Shahi, 46, said he had his first scene with Mr. Gandolfini when he “started doing mushrooms.”
“I don’t know if you remember that scene, but he’s a very method actor, so he wanted a prop. I think it was actually dried mushrooms, but I wanted them to have some pepper or a lot of spice or something so that when you put them in your mouth, there would be some kind of reaction,” she recalled.
“There’s a scene where I’m sitting on his lap picking mushrooms, and then we have to kiss, and when they called ‘cut,’ we were still kissing…still kissing,” the “Black Adam” star said.
“We did it three or four times and each time they said ‘cut’ and we were still making out,” she recalled.
Shahi guest starred on Season 6 of The Sopranos in 2007. She played Sonya Aragon, a college student and stripper who was Christopher Moltisanti’s mistress.
Moltisanti (played by Michael Imperioli) bonds with the soprano in Las Vegas after her tragic death.
In the episode “Kennedy and Heidi”, Soprano meets Aragon and she introduces him to a hallucinogenic plant, which prompts the Mafia crime boss to experience a deep spiritual awakening.
Gandolfini died of a sudden heart attack while on vacation in Rome in June 2013. He was 51 years old.
