“Sopranos” star Lorraine Bracco has been clear that she wasn’t happy with the present’s 2007 finale — and not too long ago described how her co-star James Gandolfini reacted to it.
On Tuesday’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon requested Bracco to substantiate that she “didn’t love” the ending.
“I’ll tell you the truth,” she mentioned. “I was sitting next to Jimmy Gandolfini, and he just went like this: ‘That’s it? That’s it?’ And you know how he always used to push his hair back, and he just walked out. … He couldn’t believe it. I said, ‘Yeah, I guess that’s it.’”
The crime drama created by David Chase premiered in 1999 and shortly grew to become an HBO flagship. It heralded an period of so-called “prestige TV” on cable.
The ambiguous finale upset legions of followers, nevertheless, who demanded to know if fictional mob boss Tony Soprano (Gandolfini) can be killed by his enemies.
Bracco beforehand recalled Gandolfini’s response to the ending within the 2024 documentary “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos,” and mentioned the actor was probably “in shock like everybody else.”
She acknowledged Tuesday, nevertheless, that Chase did “do something interesting” with the ending, as “people are still talking about it.”
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Final 12 months, on “The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw,” Bracco additionally mentioned she was irked by the present’s finale.
“I thought it was bad and wrong,” Bracco mentioned on the SiriusXM present on the time. “I was annoyed. I told [Chase], ‘How do you invest, you know, five years into someone’s life and just walk away?’ I said, that is not cool.’”
Gandolfini died of a coronary heart assault in Rome in 2013 at age 51. A number of “Sopranos” stars attended his New York funeral, together with Edie Falco, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Aida Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Michael Imperioli and Bracco.
The star’s son Michael Gandolfini was solely 14 on the time, however has since change into an actor himself.
Watch the total interview with Bracco beneath:
