Actor and noted Alternative Music Dude Michael Imperioli — who has both banned homophobes from watching his work and is "not sure how racist" Morrisey's racism is — has added another layer of complexity to his whole deal with the reveal that he once enlisted a witch to help him get a movie made.
In a clip from the new Danny Garcia documentary Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories), Imperioli recounted the time he visited a witch while working on 1999's Summer of Sam.
"I had just begun writing Summer of Sam with Victor Colicchio — we wrote that script together," Imperioli said in the clip. "I really wanted to get it made. So I met somebody who was living here who was a witch, who said she could help me get it made, but it wasn't going to happen the way I thought it would. I was very ambitious at the time and wanted to get that made, so [I] resorted to tapping into otherworldly means to get it through the studio system."
Summer of Sam ultimately got made, so maybe it worked? Let's say it did. The movie was directed by Spike Lee, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Colicchio and Imperioli. Starring John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, and Mira Sorvino, the movie tells a fictionalized version of the 1977 NYC murders by the serial killer known as the Son of Sam.
That's not all Imperioli had to share, though — in another scene from Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel, the Sopranos actor said he saw a ghost while staying in the titular New York City haunt.
"I saw a ghost here," he said. "Some people may think that I'm insane and it's bullshit or whatever. But I'm not the only person who has seen this apparition of a woman, apparently from the late 19th century, whose soon-to-be husband died on the Titanic. She came from upstate or something and was waiting for him here, and when she found out what happened to him, she killed herself."
That ghost origin story sounds tired as hell, but all power to Imperioli if that's what he said he saw.
In a clip from the new Danny Garcia documentary Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories), Imperioli recounted the time he visited a witch while working on 1999's Summer of Sam.
"I had just begun writing Summer of Sam with Victor Colicchio — we wrote that script together," Imperioli said in the clip. "I really wanted to get it made. So I met somebody who was living here who was a witch, who said she could help me get it made, but it wasn't going to happen the way I thought it would. I was very ambitious at the time and wanted to get that made, so [I] resorted to tapping into otherworldly means to get it through the studio system."
Summer of Sam ultimately got made, so maybe it worked? Let's say it did. The movie was directed by Spike Lee, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Colicchio and Imperioli. Starring John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, and Mira Sorvino, the movie tells a fictionalized version of the 1977 NYC murders by the serial killer known as the Son of Sam.
That's not all Imperioli had to share, though — in another scene from Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel, the Sopranos actor said he saw a ghost while staying in the titular New York City haunt.
"I saw a ghost here," he said. "Some people may think that I'm insane and it's bullshit or whatever. But I'm not the only person who has seen this apparition of a woman, apparently from the late 19th century, whose soon-to-be husband died on the Titanic. She came from upstate or something and was waiting for him here, and when she found out what happened to him, she killed herself."
That ghost origin story sounds tired as hell, but all power to Imperioli if that's what he said he saw.
