The young actor was 14 when his father died of a heart attack in Italy.
The hardest part of this whole process was watching the show for the first time.
It was an intense process.
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But then Id also be seeing my father.
I think what made it so hard was I had to do it alone.
I was just sitting alone in my dark apartment, watching my dad all the time.
I started having crazy dreams.
That hit hard, he says.
The other scene is when Soprano was talking to his son A.J.
after a fight with him, and then says, I couldnt ask for a better son.
I just knew he was talking to me in that scene.
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