Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa have finished plenty of performing since their time on The Sopranos. Nevertheless, given the standard and continued acclaim of the HBO sequence, it is no shock the world nonetheless remembers them most due to their much-loved characters from the mob drama. There are some downsides to that, nevertheless, as Sanpelligrino CIAO! hilariously factors out in its new advert marketing campaign that includes the 2 actors.
In a humorous sequence of commercials, Imperioli and Schirripa obtain a delivery container filled with Sanpelligrino CIAO!, the newest product launch from the Italian-based glowing water firm. Sadly, they’re having hassle handing the product off to others, primarily as a result of most of the people nonetheless sees them as mafioso sorts regardless of Sopranos being a TV sequence. Schirripa spoke to CinemaBlend concerning the business shoot and what it was like re-teaming up together with his former co-star:
We’re very shut pals. We did the podcast collectively, we have finished motion pictures collectively, we wrote a e-book collectively. So it was plenty of enjoyable when Sanpellegrino got here to us with it. One, I am a fan of Sanpellegrino, truthfully. We went all the way down to Florida. We spent a couple of days down there, and we tried to present this glorious Ciao! product out to individuals, they usually’d mistaken us for our performing personas, let’s consider. It was plenty of enjoyable.
Schirripa could have an thrilling position lined up in Dexter: Ressurection, however he was all the way down to make a journey to Florida and shoot commercials together with his longtime buddy. As talked about above, Schirripa and Michael Imperioli co-hosted the Speaking Sopranos podcast collectively and are very a lot concerned in one another’s lives a long time after the mob sequence’ polarizing ending.
It was a enjoyable time, in accordance with the actor, who had one massive confession to make about filming the advert marketing campaign. Steve Schirripa endorses Sanpelligrino CIAO!, to the purpose that he could have had somewhat an excessive amount of of the beverage whereas filming the commercials:
You see a business or a present, they usually’re saying, ‘They don’t seem to be consuming, they’re not likely consuming. ’ I should have drank, I do not know what number of Sanpellegrino peach Ciao!. I should have had twenty of them that day. It is actually that good…It sort of jogs my memory of Italy. You style that little pinch of Sicilian sea salt, so it makes it higher. However simply to go hang around with Michael, , we speak much more than we see one another though we reside a mile away, nevertheless it was plenty of enjoyable.
Consuming on the units of films and TV exhibits could be a combined bag. Generally it’s important to chew right into a gross coronary heart and also you throw up, and different occasions the meals is so good you make your self sick making an attempt to scarf all of it down scene after scene. I bear in mind studying as soon as that the children from Harry Potter had been getting sick as a result of they stored consuming the meals within the Nice Corridor over a number of takes, and I really feel like I might’ve had the identical drawback.
Fortuitously, I do not assume the pure fruit-flavored glowing water gave Schirripa any points, as he is a giant fan of peach. For these curious, the brand new SanPelligrino CIAO! is obtainable within the following flavors:
- Lime
- Cherry
- Blood Orange
- Peach
The brand new product line is presently rolling out to shops and, as somebody who has additionally tried them, I can say it is an excellent drink to have available whereas streaming The Sopranos with a Max subscription. I am positive it will even be nice for that upcoming Blue Bloods spinoff if mob dramas aren’t your bag. No matter you watch, you will see Steve Schirripa on commercials quickly sufficient, through which he’ll be repping this new product.
CinemaBlend continues to test on what stars of The Sopranos are as much as, whereas, in fact, additionally maintaining with the 2025 TV schedule. We’re additionally very enthusiastic about Steve Schirripa becoming a member of Dexter: Resurrection, which is slowly constructing a outstanding forged for the serial killer’s newest story.