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Lorraine Bracco Says She and James Gandolfini ‘Pranked’ Each Other: ‘He Had a Great Sense of Humor’ (Exclusive).

When Lorraine Bracco reflects on her time working with James Gandolfini on The Sopranos, it’s with good humor and tremendous fondness for a man who was just as much of a prankster off-camera as he was a gifted actor on-camera.

The actress, 69, who starred on the HBO mobster drama as Dr. Jennifer Melfi, shared many scenes with Gandolfini’s iconic character, Tony Soprano — and it was always a “fun” time, Bracco shares with PEOPLE.

“He had fun to him, Jimmy. He had a great sense of humor,” Bracco recalls. “He was a prankster about a lot of things. We pranked each other a lot.”

“I worked one day an episode, and we always had the Melfi scenes at the end, because Jimmy had so much dialogue to learn,” she continues. “One day, I walk into the makeup trailer, and he looks at me, and it’s in the summer, and I’m all tanned, brown, looking good and happy, and he said, ‘Who died and gave you this job?’”