{"id":2250625,"date":"2026-01-26T08:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2250625"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:01:50","slug":"a-legendary-rock-musician-almost-starred-in-hbos-the-sopranos-before-james-gandolfini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/a-legendary-rock-musician-almost-starred-in-hbos-the-sopranos-before-james-gandolfini\/","title":{"rendered":"A Legendary Rock Musician Almost Starred In HBO’s The Sopranos Before James Gandolfini"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re a big Sopranos<\/a> fan, you may already know that Steven Van Zandt<\/a> never intended to be an actor. He was a rock ‘n’ roll musician through and through, a vital member of the famous E Street Band, touring the country and the world with Bruce Springsteen<\/a> for years. But the creator of “The Sopranos<\/a>,” David Chase<\/a>, saw something in him and chased Van Zandt to convince him to take a shot at acting. In an interview with Fox News<\/a>, the actor-musician recalled that Chase initially cast him as Tony Soprano<\/a> before HBO intervened. Van Zandt explained, “As it turns out,…<\/div>\n

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If you’re a big Sopranos fan, you may already know that Steven Van Zandt never intended to be an actor. He was a rock ‘n’ roll musician through and through, a vital member of the famous E Street Band, touring the country and the world with Bruce Springsteen for years. But the creator of “The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2250626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2250625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/A-Legendary-Rock-Musician-Almost-Starred-In-HBOs-The-Sopranos.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250627,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250625\/revisions\/2250627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}