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Sarah Shahi is spilling the details on her spicy sex scene with "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini.
On the "Bossticks" podcast, Shahi said that her kiss with Gandolfini was "one of the best" kisses she's ever had.
"We had this scene where he was so hot and … I remember thinking to myself, 'How am I going to get turned on by this 47-year-old large, balding man?' There’s nothing … how is this going to work for me? Oh boy, did it work for me!" the actress began.
Sarah Shahi said her kiss with James Gandolfini in "The Sopranos" was one of the best she's ever had. (Getty Images)
Shahi, who appeared briefly on "The Sopranos," went on to detail the scene where the actors took mushrooms before she sat on his lap and kissed him.
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"Oh boy, did it work for me!"
"I don’t know if you remember the scene. And he’s a very method actor. So, he wanted props. I think they actually had dehydrated mushrooms, and he wanted them to put pepper on them or a lot of spice or just something, so when you put it in your mouth, there’s some kind of a reaction," Shahi said.
Sarah Shahi at the "Paradise" season 2 premiere. (Lisa O'Connor/AFP via Getty Images)
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She continued, "There’s a scene where I’m sitting on his lap, and we’re taking these mushrooms, and then we have to kiss and when they called ‘cut,’ we were still kissing … we were still kissing."
Shahi said they had to film the scene three or four times and every time production yelled "cut!," the pair were "still f–---g making out."
James Gandolfini, as Tony Soprano, smokes a cigar while standing in a pool in a publicity still for the HBO series "The Sopranos" in 1999. (Anthony Neste/Getty Images)
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Shahi starred as Sonya Aragon in the hit HBO drama, a stripper and young college student who was the mistress of Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli). Shahi appeared on season 6 in 2007.
James Gandolfini and Michael Imperioli appear in a scene from the TV series "The Sopranos." (Anthony Neste/Getty Images)
Gandolfini died unexpectedly on June 19, 2013, while vacationing in Rome, Italy. He was 51 years old. An autopsy later confirmed that he died of a heart attack.
