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    Edie Falco Refuses to 'Go Method' for Her Roles

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    The former ‘Nurse Jackie’ actress says she would rather dream up her characters and use her imagination than go through transformations to ‘become’ them.
    Mar 1, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Edie Falco refuses to ‘go method’ on the characters she plays on TV, because she prefers to use her imagination.
    The former “The Sopranos” star can’t understand her peers who go through transformations to “become” characters, insisting it’s much more fun to dream them up.
    For instance, Edie didn’t spend time with the Los Angeles Police Department while researching her latest TV role as cop boss Abigail Thomas for “Tommy”.
    “I don’t know about research,” she tells WENN. “I’ve tried. I’ve been kind of pushed into it by overzealous producers and I find myself standing opposite someone who really had the job I’m supposed to be doing. I don’t find it helpful. I find it confusing. It involves a different part of my brain than the part of me that acts.”
    “I’m sure some actors swear by it, and God bless them! Daniel Day-Lewis becomes the other person and is referred to by the character’s name (in between takes). Everybody works in different ways. Years ago I would’ve made up a whole story about my prep right now, but I’m over it!”
    “If I was playing a cowboy, I wouldn’t think, ‘So, what would a real cowboy do?’ You’re just deeply playing. Your imagination takes over and you’re living the life of a person with different life circumstances.”

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      Edie Falco Laughs Off Expletive Blunder on Daytime TV

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      ‘The Sopranos’ actress stops by ‘The View’ to promote her new police drama series, ‘Tommy’, and shares her thought on the fact her top cop character is a lesbian.
      Feb 28, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Actress Edie Falco accidentally turned the air blue on Thursday (February 27) after letting slip an expletive on daytime TV.
      “The Sopranos” star was promoting her new police drama series, “Tommy”, on America’s “The View” when she admitted she was unfazed by the fact her top cop character, Abigail ‘Tommy’ Thomas, was a lesbian.
      “It did not occur to me as something to take into account when I read it (in the script),” Falco shared. “It was just, this is what she does, this is the job she’s gonna take on, and how will that be different because of who she is as a person, as opposed to the fact that she’s a woman or that she’s gay?”
      She continued, “It feels like maybe it’s time – it’s long past time, if you ask me – where that’s not the first thing you know or you ask about someone, their sexuality. It feels like what a bizarre thing to even know. Who gives a s**t, right?”
      The 56-year-old quickly realised her blunder, which was bleeped out by TV censors, and laughed off the mishap by cheering, “Whoo!”
      “I think Carmela kicked in there for a second!” show co-host Joy Behar quipped, referencing the star’s mob wife character on “The Sopranos”.
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      Falco, who is known for tackling edgy characters on cable TV, where language and content rules are more relaxed, smiled as she explained, “See, I don’t work on network (TV) much…! That’s what that is. I had a moment!”

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      Edie Falco's New Series Filmed in Fake L.A. as She Refuses to Go to West Coast

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      The former ‘Nurse Jackie’ actress initially turned down the new police show ‘Tommy’ because it’s set in Los Angeles but TV bosses offered to move the location to New York.
      Feb 23, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Actress Edie Falco almost missed out on the title role in new police drama series “Tommy” because she refused to leave her family life in New York to film in Los Angeles.
      “The Sopranos” star initially passed on the role of Abigail ‘Tommy’ Thomas, a former New York Police Department captain who becomes the first female chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, but TV bosses were so keen to land Falco as their leading lady, they offered to move the whole production to the Big Apple.
      “I usually know pretty quickly (if a role is going to be great) when reading the script, but that’s what happened this time: ‘Oh, this is great! Oh, it shoots in L.A.’ and I put it aside,” she told U.S. breakfast show “Today”.
      “I have kids; I live in New York, this is where my life is, so I just forgot about it,” Falco explained, “and my manager came back and said, ‘Well, what if they shot in New York?’ Keeping it as (set in) L.A., but shot in New York.”
      “I was like, ‘Very funny’ – and they did!”
      To make the set look more like America’s West Coast, producers had palm trees driven from shoot to shoot. “(They brought in) palm trees, in the back of a truck!” Falco laughed. “We get there, we take the palm trees out, we shoot the scene, put the palm trees back in the truck, go to the next location… We’ll see if people buy it!”
      And the 56-year-old actress is convinced a higher power helped to ensure everything worked out in her favour. “If you know what you’re doing and why you’re doing it, things tend to happen the way they should, I have found,” Falco shared.
      “Like, I would never go in there (to speak to producers) and say, ‘Well, I’ll do this, but you shoot it in New York…’ I can’t. It’s not for me to be (telling them), and if they have another idea about it, amazing.”

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