Michael Imperioli Reveals the Most Difficult Scenes to Film of His Career

Michael Imperioli is opening up about his experience as an actor.

The 57-year-old The White Lotus star opened up in an interview with The Guardian about his roles throughout his career.

During the conversation, he reflected on his character in The Sopranos, Christopher Moltisanti.

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He pointed out that scenes in which he was violent toward his fiancée Adriana La Cerva (Drea de Matteo) were among the most difficult to film.

“The most brutal, difficult stuff for me is when Christopher had to be physically abusive with Adriana, for obvious reasons,” he said.

“On a technical level, you’re trying to be really careful so you don’t hurt the person. But having to get to that point of violence towards a woman, you have to go to some nasty places to get there.”

He went on to explain that sometimes it can be “very immediate” to get into that headspace to film the scene, other times he’d have to “something present in your life that you can tap into. Sometimes you have to go someplace from the past. And sometimes you have to go to someplace imaginary.”

“It’s one thing to choreograph and rehearse it, then when you act it full-tilt with all the emotion, it’s easy to not have as much control as in the rehearsal. So you really have to be quite careful,” he went on t o explain.

He added that it’s easier “shooting a mobster or shooting heroin…that stuff to me is not difficult.”

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