back with more coming up here on the death of the sopranos star james gandolfini. actor jeff daniels worked with gandolfini on broadway. he will join us on hardball in just a minute.
he didn t miss one. sadly, i now miss him like a brother. jeff daniels joins us now from new york. he is a legend in the business himself, and star of hbo s the newsroom, which has its season premier on sunday, july 14th. so talk about i m always fascinated when i meet people like you. only four actors, all four of them nominated for tony awards. jeff daniels joins us now from he is a legend in the business himself and star of hbo s the i ve watched, been charmed by you on the screen and in theater. and you meet the person and you go what is he like? because we never get to meet them that way. you know, we live in a world where what is the bad stuff, what is the negative that sells papers and tabloids and things like that. jim, jim had a generosity that was as big as new jersey. he there are countless stories, whether it s on the sopranos or whether it s god of carnage that he would do stuff for us. i remember when we extended, and jim got the play done. that s the only reas
and that was one of the many things i ll remember about him. wow. i m always amazed at you guys when you do broadway. friday nights, saturday afternoon, saturday night and then sunday. don t forget tuesday, wednesday, wednesday and thursday either. it s just work. it s brutal, it s brutal. let me ask you about what you re doing with newsroom. my son has a part on that show. not as large as years, of course. you re the man on the show. you play a guy kind of a little like keith olbermann, maybe little like me, maybe other people in news business. what is it going to be like coming out starting this sunday? it s the most organic show i ve ever watched. it seems to come out of itself every week. it seems to grow like a human being. and that makes it so unpredictable and fascinating to people. i think one of the things that is unfair to us is that or any tv series in particular is that when you come in with season one, for all of us, aaron, me, every actor, every designer,
up next, an actor with a personal perspective on james gandolfini, jeff daniels. of course he is the star of newsroom , but he also starred on broadway with gandolfini. they worked together every night. he will tell us what this guy we just lost was like as a person as well as an actor as well as an actor, as well as an icon. this is hardball, the place for politics. we got adt because i walked in on a burglary once.
wow. he did things like that constantly. it was so brave of him to come to broadway. that s the proving ground. a lot of film actors can t do it. it s eight times a week. it s tough to make it look like it s happening for the first time month after month after month. i think there was part of jim that looked at sopranos as this cooped of i don t want to be a one-hit wonder. and i m a big star, but am i good actor. and he bravely came to broadway with god of carnage to prove to himself that he was a good actor. and it was a joy for the four of us, for mar sharks hope and myself in particular to kind of watch him feel good about what he did as an actor. and i know by the end of it, we walked off stage. and i said you did it. and you could see in his eyes that, yeah, i did. i did it. and that now he wasn t just a star. now he was a good actor in his own mind.