James Gandolfini struggled with the relentless violence of The Sopranos, one of the show’s stars has said

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Steve Schirripa, who played mobster Bobby Bacala, said that while millions were gripped by one of TV’s most famous gangster families for nearly a decade, the show began to take its toll on its titular character.

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00:06These are bad guys, you know, they're sociopaths, they're psychopaths.

00:11They kill in a drop of a dime, then go sit down and eat a steak dinner.

00:18That bothered him having to be angry all the time.

00:21That started getting to him.

00:23In the middle, the end, I mean, don't forget, he worked 16-hour days, five days a week.

00:29He had to kill people, he had to yell, be angry every day, every day, every day.

00:34For some people it's easy, for some people it's not, you know.

00:39I think it started bothering him, yeah, I'd say that.

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