The man who played Vo Spatafore on beg the butt of fat jok, gay jok, and the star of a famo gif.
Contents:
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
- GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
- HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
- WHAT GAY BARS TELL ABOUT THE GOLN AGE OF TELEVISN
- HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
The Sopranos was a show wh some wild twists, but arguably s most shockg revelatn was that Vo Spatafore, the portly po of the Aprile crew and one of Tony’s bt earners, was actually a closeted homosexual.
GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
He’d pched to one of the wrers after learng about a real-life gay mobster om a book he was readg, lled Murr Mache. Sce fdg fame on The Sopranos, Gannasli has published a novel, gotten married (“I got married late, and I said ‘I gotta get married quick here bee people are really gog to thk that I’m gay, ’ so was a sh job. You talked about them rporatg real-life thgs wh the actors to the show, but the whole Vo arc where he’s gay, that was your ia, right?
And one of the characters was gay and I thought that was… I was like, “Wow, was a gay mobster.
HOW THE MOB HELPED ESTABLISH NYC’S GAY BAR SCENE
They’re so homophobic that even the portrayal of a gay man on TV they’re like, “I don’t like . I worked a gay rtrant.
WHAT GAY BARS TELL ABOUT THE GOLN AGE OF TELEVISN
If you have a problem wh gays you shouldn’t be the rtrant bs.
In the episo where they disver that Vo’s gay at the leather bar, do you remember what you were thkg the first time that they me and showed you the wardrobe that you were gog to have for that? ”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.
HOW GAY IS VO OM THE SOPRANOS?
)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 wanted to make him sort of self-nial, self-loathg, a real gay hater.