Photo: RR Auction
HBO’s drama series The Sopranos spanned over six seasons and was celebrated with great commercial success. The Italian-American fictional character Tony Soprano was based on real-life New Jersey mobster Vincent “Vinny Ocean” Palermo. The script helped, but what made this show special was late James Gandolfini's acting talent. Everything about the show looked so natural with the family’s car, a white 2003 Cadillac Escalade, making no exception.
Tony Soprano was the role of his life and Gandolfini will always be remembered for it. He garnered enormous praise for this performance, winning three Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. Perhaps the owner of the luxury SUV - Movie Cars Incorporated - is counting on the celebrity factor too, considering they have decided to put the vehicle on sale.
This breed is one out of two identical 2003 Cadillac Escalade ESVs, leased by HBO for the show. According to RR Auction, who will put it under the hammer this next month, the vehicle was used during the last three seasons of the award-winning HBO series.
The white Escalade was used primarily for exterior shots including those showing Tony Soprano and his associates entering, exiting, and driving, as well as in shots where the car appeared on the scene during dialogue. The SUV was also used in action sequences including the infamous chase from season five in which Tony, angrily trying to collect a debt, drives Phil Leotardo off the road and into a parked car.
James Gandolfini himself signed the interior of the Escalade twice in black felt tip, once inside the driver’s side sun visor - “Thanks for the truck, James Gandolfini,” - and once on the panel above the glovebox. The vehicle is part of the lots put up for auction at the Music and Entertainment Icons Auction that opens on November 12 and goes through November 19, with the starting bid fixed at $5,000.
This breed is one out of two identical 2003 Cadillac Escalade ESVs, leased by HBO for the show. According to RR Auction, who will put it under the hammer this next month, the vehicle was used during the last three seasons of the award-winning HBO series.
The white Escalade was used primarily for exterior shots including those showing Tony Soprano and his associates entering, exiting, and driving, as well as in shots where the car appeared on the scene during dialogue. The SUV was also used in action sequences including the infamous chase from season five in which Tony, angrily trying to collect a debt, drives Phil Leotardo off the road and into a parked car.
James Gandolfini himself signed the interior of the Escalade twice in black felt tip, once inside the driver’s side sun visor - “Thanks for the truck, James Gandolfini,” - and once on the panel above the glovebox. The vehicle is part of the lots put up for auction at the Music and Entertainment Icons Auction that opens on November 12 and goes through November 19, with the starting bid fixed at $5,000.
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