I stumbled upon this today. It’s old but I’d never read it before. I don’t think.
Oral History of the Sopranos.
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STEVEN SCHIRRIPA (Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri): I had been working as entertainment director at the Riviera in Las Vegas. When I got the script, I remember reading it going, Wait a minute. I mean, Tony’s calling me “a calzone with legs,” and “Consider salads, you fat ####.” And I’m not that much bigger than him. So at first I thought, Maybe they cast the wrong guy? And then they had me come in a day or two early and they fitted me for a fat suit. And for the first two seasons I was in a fat suit. And then I guess, in Season Four, David thought I was fat enough on my own, so he let me get rid of it.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...s-oral-history