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Nights a week, gay two nights a week and kind of everything else two nights a week. so i spent a few years just watching people in amazement. saw a lot of interesting things that i stored up for later. >> encouraged by a college friend and nightclub regular, gandolfini attended his first acting class. >> i went in and i was scared to death. i was shaking. >> terrified. but fascinated and determined, gandolfini would spent e spend the better part of the next decade mastering his craft and finally catching a break in 1992 on broadway. >> i auditioned for the role of steve in streetcar named desi...

>> i knew him all four years of high school. we had one acting class together and that's really when i got to know him the most out of those four years. but when i knew him in my class, he was very kind, very, you know, kind of quiet, but, you know, said funny things, said nice things, he was a good friend to those who were friends with him. >> okay, so you knew him from high school. you weren't -- >> oh no, no, no. i'm sorry. go ahead. >> okay. what -- did very any kind of extracurricular activities, after school activities, beyond just what he did in the classroom? was he interested in parti...

Side. these are the people that struck a nerve in me. later on, when i was up to make a decision in my life, getting out of high school, i took an acting class, out of cureiosity and it was like a virus. i was very stimulate bide it. >> sean: you do all of these big movies, but you also like to work on different projects, mauler projects, producing films. and this is -- you are finishing up now on a religious freedom project. tell us about that? >> i don't know, the main argument of the film has to do with a war in... it was an uprising in mexico in 1926. it was a play on words for christ. and...

Side. these are the people that struck a nerve in me. later on, when i was up to make a decision in my life, getting out of high school, i took an acting class, out of cureiosity and it was like a virus. i was very stimulate bide it. >> sean: you do all of these big movies, but you also like to work on different projects, mauler projects, producing films. and this is -- you are finishing up now on a religious freedom project. tell us about that? >> i don't know, the main argument of the film has to do with a war in... it was an uprising in mexico in 1926. it was a play on words for christ. and...

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