“The Sopranos” guest star recalls getting 'whacked by Paulie Walnuts' for real, thanks to mishap with lead pipe
Actor Chris Diamantopoulos, who guest starred on HBO's The Sopranos as Jason Barone, a family friend of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), recalled the time a scene involving a prop rubber pipe went wrong and he "got whacked by Paulie Walnuts and lived to tell about it.