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Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri is a fictional character portrayed by Tony Sirico on the HBO series The Sopranos, one of the chief henchmen of series protagonist Tony Soprano. Sirico auditioned for the role of Uncle Junior with Frank Vincent , but Dominic Chianese landed the role.
However, Paulie provokes Valery and starts a fight, which ends with Valery apparently dead. Panicked, Paulie suggests that they dump him in the Pine Barrens. In the snow-covered woods, Paulie and Chris prepare to dump the body but find that Valery, who is revealed to be a trained commando, is still alive. They give him a shovel and instruct him ...
“The answer is it wasn't the fake one,” Diamantopoulos says, joking that he "got whacked by Paulie Walnuts and lived to tell about it.” Bobby Bank/WireImage Tony Sirico and James Gandolfini ...
Genaro Anthony Sirico Jr. (/ s ɪ ˈ r iː k oʊ /; July 24, 1942 – July 8, 2022) [2] was an American actor who portrayed Paulie Gualtieri in The Sopranos. Born in Brooklyn to an Italian-American family, Sirico had a tumultuous early life marked by multiple arrests and periods of imprisonment for crimes including robbery, assault, and extortion.
Sirico’s Paulie Walnuts, a bombastic and ferociously funny foot soldier to James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano with one-liners like no one else, was a “Sopranos” scene-stealer from the start.
"It was a rite of passage to be whacked by Paulie Walnuts," he added. It's nearly 26 years since The Sopranos first premiered on HBO in January of 1999, becoming a runaway hit that went on for six ...
"I got whacked by Paulie Walnuts and lived to tell about it," 'The Sticky' star jokes of his guest-star appearance on 'The Sopranos'
That's good, because somebody usually goes down at these affairs." In "The Sopranos", Tony had a panic attack while barbecuing. Tony is wearing shorts, even though the late Carmine told him, in "For All Debts Public and Private", "A don doesn't wear shorts." Paulie Gualtieri is called "Paulie Walnuts" by Tony B.