Happy Birthday: Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt

Born: November 22, 1950 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, USA

Married to:
Maureen Van Zandt (31 December 1982 – present)

We lost Vinny Pastore [playing Sal ‘Big Pussy’ Bonpensiero] and that was the most difficult day up to that point. The only day on the set I can remember, you know, out of the whole ten years, where it was very uptight, a lot of tension on the set. I remember people yelling at each other and really pissed off, which you never saw. Why? Because we were losing Vinny. He was a beloved friend of ours, and you’re not going to see him anymore.

[on the closing episode of the ‘Sopranos’] I had to go on one of those nationally syndicated shows the next morning, so I heard from the whole country how upset they were. So I just started asking people, Okay, what’s your ending? Does the family get wiped out? Is that what you want? You want the kid to get killed? Tony to get killed? The wife? Okay, so what? And nobody could really say. I said, ‘I’ll tell you exactly what happened. The director said cut, the actors went home. That’s what happened.’ It’s a TV show. It’s a fucking TV show, okay?

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