Sarah Shahi swooned over her “hot” sex scenes in “The Sopranos” with the late James Gandolfini.
“I did a sex scene with Tony Soprano,” the “Paradise” actress recently revealed on the “Bossticks” podcast, referring to Gandolfini’s character on the hit HBO drama.
“One of the best, I have to say, kisses I’ve ever had,” she added.
“We had this scene where he was so hot and … I remember thinking to myself, ‘How am I going to get turned on by this 47-year-old large, balding man?’ There’s nothing … how is this going to work for me? Oh boy, did it work for me!”
Shahi, 46, said there was a scene where she and Gandolfini first started “doing mushrooms.”
“I don’t know if you remember the scene. And he’s a very method actor. So, he wanted props. I think they actually had dehydrated mushrooms and he wanted them to put pepper on them or a lot of spice or just something, so when you put it in your mouth, there’s some kind of a reaction,” she recalled.
“There’s a scene where I’m sitting on his lap and we’re taking these mushrooms and then we have to kiss and when they called ‘cut,’ we were still kissing … we were still kissing,” the “Black Adam” star shared.
“Like, and we did it three, four times and every time they would call ‘cut’ and we’re still f–king making out,” she remembered.
Shahi guest-starred on “The Sopranos” in Season 6 in 2007. She portrayed Sonya Aragon, a college student and stripper who was the mistress of Christopher Moltisanti.
Moltisanti (played by Michael Imperioli) bonded with Soprano in Las Vegas following a tragic death.
In the episode “Kennedy and Heidi,” Soprano met Aragon and she introduced him to a hallucinogenic plant that prompted the mafia crime boss to experience a profound spiritual awakening.
Gandolfini died in June 2013 after suffering a sudden heart attack while vacationing in Rome. He was 51.
