Producers were worried about him staying alive as we went off on drinking and coke binges
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HBO was ‘concerned’ about ‘Sopranos’ star James Gandolfini ‘staying alive’
“We were concerned about Gandolfini staying alive. Occasionally he would go on a bender or a coke binge,” former HBO exec Jeff Bewkes revealed.
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