Russell Crowe

Embarrassingly, I've only ever seen maybe four or five Sopranos episodes.

Really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And every time I watch it, I go, I cannot believe that I didn't get overtaken by this at the time.

Because Gandolfini was a mate.

I met him like early 90s in New York.

Him and a friend of mine called Lenny Lofton used to rent a place together on 44th and 9th in Hell's Kitchen.

And this is like an apartment on maybe the fourth floor of a building.

And there were a couple of windows they didn't even have glass in.

They had like plastic sheets and a blanket nailed up against the window.

And that's what, you know, the situation that Gandolfini was in when I first met him.

Wow.

And a few years later, he was obviously very successful.

But my youngest son, Tennyson.

is like a Sopranos expert.

You can say a line to him and he'll know what episode, what season, and who said that.

Wow.

It's like he's so into it.

And when I have started watching, very recently actually, some ducks landed on a pool on the farm.

I had no idea what people were talking about.