These are some newish photos of James Gandolfini filming in NYC last week. He’s doing an HBO movie called Cinema Verte, and it also stars Diane Lane. I’m thinking he grew out the black-silver beard for the role, whatever it is. But I was still taken aback by how different he looks. Not just the beard, but he’s gained a lot of weight too, right? He’s always been a large man, tall and broad and just BIG. But he really looks overweight here, and now I’m worried about him.
But anyway, the beard: at first I thought it was SNL’s Horatio Sanz, before he lost all of his weight. As far as whether or not I would still hit it – eh. I’ve always found James very sexy (the Tony Soprano thing, plus he seems like he would be fun in bed), but the beard is killing my libido. Not cool, Gandolfini.
James G. on August 26, 2010. Credit: Bauer-Griffin.
I’ve never found him sexy.
LOL Horatio Sanz wasn’t scary looking when he was overweight. James Gandolfini looks scary and he isn’t ugly but I don’t find him attractive. He could stand to lose some weight but what are you gonna do?
Still? How about never was!
WHEN was he ever sexy?! Gross.
He would be a great snuggle buddy grizzly bear…
Something’s a tad askew with his hair, too. Tony was balding, but in a very masculine, high testosterone way.
But it matters not. The new look doesn’t ooze with the kind of dangerous, brooding, dirty, male sex appeal that Tony Soprano had. But I still like James Gandolfini. A lot.
I don’t think he looks bigger than he did on the Soprano’s!
From the waist down he look normal and then of course the gut, which looks the same as it was.
I think it’s the long hair and facial hair that make him look beefier but he looks the same to me.
I definitely think there is something sexy about him.
Not a fan of the long hair-do or the full blown facial hair at all.
It looks good on some men but I would never want to deal with it on a personal level with my man…it seems so dirty.
I don’t think I’ve ever even kissed a guy who had a mustache/beard.
But, he’s still sexy.
Um, no. Never has been sexy but this just brings it to the bottom of the pond.
Yes there is something sexy about Tony Soprano, but I don’t like this look for him.
He looks like Tim ‘The Tool Man’ Taylor’s sidekick Al from Home Improvement.
While I’ve never found his sexy, there was always something charismatic about his Tony Soprano character.
What do you mean ‘still’?
What do you mean “still sexy”. When was he ever sexy? Doesn’t help that he treats fans like crap, either.
I was always repulsed when Tony and Carmela engaged in sexay times, so I have never found him sexy.
Good actor, but certainly not sexy!
I’m OK with facial hair, hubby has a goatee, but there’s just something “mean” about James Gandolfini. I feel like he’s totally full of himself, and that’s not sexy.
Ewww he looks like Luciano Pavarotti. Not sexy at all.
sexy?
He was sexy on Sopranos but now he looks like the love child of Luciano Pavarotti and Paul Sorvino.
it’s “libido”
🙂
His belly looks like a MAJOR beer gut-is he an alcoholic? I hope not but looks like it to me!
I’ve never found him sexy just likeable but I have a friend who loves him.
hey TONY !! you’re still sexy baby !
Still sexy?
Yikes…never has been for me.
Yes, that’s it, Pavarotti.
I never found him sexy. In the slightest.
Never has been for me either.
Didn’t he recently get divorced? Maybe it’s stress.
I hate to admit it, but I found him sexy in his Tony Soprano days. But now, ugh. And he looks a lot like Artie Lange here too, which is not a compliment.
Entering Brando territory (only as respect size – not sexiness).
Never sexy.
OMG! Stephano DiMera from Days of Our Lives!
As we say in the South- “Bless his heart!”
Still sexy? Since when was he sexy?
I’ve heard it all now.
He looks Horrible. He did have that passive- aggressive attitude on Sopranos, that was very sexy, but now he looks like Gumby.
he looks really different with the beard. i wouldn’t recognize him
truly unattractive in every way, including the smoking
Orson Welles, is that you?
My vote is for horrible. He gets points for authenticity in his acting though.
OMG it’s Hagrid! What…what?
wait…this is a serious question?
Still unbelievably sexy!!!
LMAO @ comment 36…lol @ Hagrid! I also agree with comment 10, he also does look alot like Tim the tool man! lol
Yes, please. Loved him when he was T. Soprano and love him now.
yeah, uh…gimme a pound of lamb chops, 4 ny strip sirloins, and 3 lbs of ground beef. lean!
he looks like my butcher. for real.
🙂
Ugh! He looks like a puppy molester!
Oh holy dog crap on a stick. I had a thing for James in The Sopranos, the man has a presence that makes me want to know what he’s like in the bedroom…but now he looks WAY TOO MUCH like my Irish dad! I think I need a drink.
Holy crap, not sexy at all. Never was.
This is such BS. We wouldn’t be having this conversation with an equivilent female: 50-something, 50 pounds overweight, out of shape. I refuse to give men anymore slack they give us. Just because he’s a wealthy, somewhat powerful man doesn’t mean he’s sexy. He looks awful. That doesn’t mean he’s a bad person, but he isn’t attractive.
Sexy? This greasy piece?