The man who played Vo Spatafore on beg the butt of fat jok, gay jok, and the star of a famo gif.
Contents:
- HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
- THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
* vito in gay bar *
Gannasli?In what Gannasli cheerfully lls “the year of the queer,” when “Brokeback Mounta” beme a phenomenon and Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Osr playg Tman Capote, Gannasli’s character (spoiler alert: read no further if you haven’t seen the episo yet) was outed Sunday night on “The Sopranos.”Drsed appropriate leather bar attire, Vo Spatafore — the heretofore closeted gay mobster — was sighted by a uple wiseguys who me by the sweaty S&M jot to llect their protectn money.“It’s a joke,” Vo weakly offers, then begs: “Don’t say noth’!”By the end of the episo, he’s checked to a motel wh a gun, lookg suicidal.Fans of the HBO seri were stunned last season when Meadow’s boyiend, Fn, saw a secury guard stg the driver’s seat of a tck — and then Vo’s head popped up.This season, Vo has hung around the hospal while Tony Soprano was reverg om a gunshot wound, tryg to gratiate himself wh Tony’s wife while plottg wh Plie Walnuts to grab her cut of a big sre.
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
(In real life, he’s down to 260 om a high of 400 pounds.)Now that the gay story le is heatg up, the 47-year-old Brooklyn-born actor is immensely pleased, part bee was his ia to make Vo homosexual.“I saw him as, like, a cross between Mike Tyson and Liberace,” Gannasli told The Associated Prs an terview at his home. “I wanted to make him sort of self-nial, self-loathg, a real gay hater.”Gannasli’s suggtn was spired by the book “Murr Mache,” about the Gambo fay, which had an openly gay member also named Vo.“They didn’t bother him about , bee I gus he was good at what he did, which was choppg up bodi,” Gannasli said.Gannasli nces that he had a self-servg motivatn for makg the suggtn: Breakg out of the pack.“I thought that was a way of separatg myself om the other actors, bee I would have been the background most of the time.
But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive.“I’m a Brooklyn guy. Vo dancg at the gay bar.
THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
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