The Sopranos’ Michael Imperioli Met With a Witch to Get a Movie Made

The Sopranos star Michael Imperioli once visited a witch in order to get a movie made.

In a clip of a new documentary, Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories), shared by Variety, Imperioli recalled a time when he enlisted help from 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 says 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 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 story about the murders committed in 1977 by the serial killer known as the Son of Sam.

Michael Imperioli has seen a ghost

In another scene in Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (which is directed by Danny Garcia), Imperioli says he witnessed supernatural activity while staying in the titular New York City building.

“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.”

Along with playing Christopher Moltisanti on HBO’s The Sopranos, Imperioli also starred in the second season of The White Lotus, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, and more.