HBOWhen weighing in on the much-talked about conclusion to the hit series, the actress playing Adrianna La Cerva admits she thought there was an issue with her TV reception.
- Jun 23, 2020
AceShowbiz – Actress Drea de Matteo thought there was an issue with her TV reception while watching the final moments of her hit drama “The Sopranos”.
The much-talked about conclusion to the hit series aired in 2007 and featured James Gandolfini‘s mob boss character Tony Soprano about to enjoy a meal in a diner with his family.
But as his daughter, portrayed by Jamie-Lynn Sigler, enters the restaurant and sits down the screen cut to black, leaving many fans to debate what happened next.
De Matteo, who played Adrianna La Cerva on the show from 1999 to 2006, admits she was so confused by creator and writer David Chase’s ending she thought she was having TV issues.
“I remember that night vividly,” the actress tells TV Insider. “I had a Sopranos party at the house… and we’re watching what happens in the end. And I was like, ‘Wait a second. What just f**king happened?’ I thought my TV glitched out because we were watching it on a big, giant, old television.”
She adds, “Then I called my girlfriend, who was still working on the show. She goes, ‘No, Drea. That’s the ending’. And I’m standing there and I look at everybody and they’re all cursing.”
De Matteo has since had time to reflect on what Chase was trying to say.
“I think the point is that you just fell for what happened,” she continued. “Or I don’t know, maybe everything the show has been saying for six seasons just goes to black and it’s all meaningless. The show was meaningless. Tony Soprano’s life was meaningless.”
Chase himself appeared to reveal that Tony actually dies at the end of the series in a recent discussion with Rolling Stone writer Alan Sepinwall.
“I think I had that death scene around two years before the end…,” he said, prompting the writer to note Chase had called it a “death scene”.
Fans of the series can revisits their favourite characters as young men the prequel, “The Many Saints of Newark”, debuts in 2021. Galdolfini’s son, Michael Gandolfini, plays the young Tony Soprano in the film.
Source: Television - aceshowbiz.com
