Michael Gandolfini is basking in what one might call a full-circle moment. The American actor may be best known as the son of the late great James Gandolfini, but he’s steadily building a name for himself in projects of his own. He landed his first leading role as a younger Tony Soprano, the character that made his father famous, in 2021’s Many Saints of Newark. He appeared in Ari Aster’s unsettling odyssey, Beau Is Afraid, in 2023. And this year, he fulfills a goal he’s been quietly manifesting for nearly a decade, acting opposite one of his acting idols, Charlie Cox.
“I actually went to see Charlie in a play when I was probably 16,” Gandolfini tells Inverse. “I waited by the side door and got his autograph and a picture with him and told him, ‘I hope to work with you one day.’”
