What was wrong with James Gandolfini? He would refuse to show up to the set; people who had prepared for work were left out in the cold. Once, the person in question was Susan Sarandon. Gandolfini also mistreated a cancer-stricken Edie Falco. On another occasion, Gandolfini's colleagues staged an intervention. When Gandolfini turned up, he saw the room and said, "Fuck you all." Then, recognizing his own power, he smirked at a producer and said, "Go ahead and fire me." He left. Acting with Annabella Sciorra, he had a scene where he was required to pick up a human body and throw it across a room. It seems possible to "phone this in" -- to reproduce the choreography without deep thought. Just do it and move on. But Gandolfini had a tantrum because the scene required "dark internal calculations"; he put himself first, wringing his hands, while others waited and waited. And yet, by contrast, on another occasion, Gandolfini acknowledged to a col...