John Magaro of The Umbrella Academy has been cast in David Chase’s The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark, according to Deadline.
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The actor joins a cast that includes Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Jon Bernthal, Billy Magnussen, and Corey Stoll. Michael Gandolfini, son of James Gandolfini, will follow in his father’s footsteps and play a younger Tony Soprano.
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As with the film itself, Magaro’s role in the film is being kept under wrap.
This marks a reunion for Magaro and Chase who worked together on Not Fade Away, about a group of friends who form a rock band in the 1960s. Otherwise, Magaro has appeared in such films as Overlord, The Big Short, and Amazon Prime’s Jack Ryan and Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy.
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