“Sopranos” star Lorraine Bracco has been clear that she wasn’t pleased with the show’s 2007 finale — and recently described how her co-star James Gandolfini reacted to it.
On Tuesday’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon asked Bracco to confirm that she “didn’t love” the ending.
“I’ll tell you the truth,” she said. “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 quickly became an HBO flagship. It heralded an era of so-called “prestige TV” on cable.
The ambiguous finale disappointed legions of fans, however, who demanded to know if fictional mob boss Tony Soprano (Gandolfini) would be killed by his enemies.
Bracco previously recalled Gandolfini’s reaction to the ending in the 2024 documentary “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos,” and said the actor was likely “in shock like everybody else.”
She acknowledged Tuesday, however, that Chase did “do something interesting” with the ending, as “people are still talking about it.”
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Last year, on “The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw,” Bracco also said she was irked by the show’s finale.
“I thought it was bad and wrong,” Bracco said on the SiriusXM show at 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 heart attack in Rome in 2013 at age 51. Several “Sopranos” stars attended his New York funeral, including Edie Falco, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Aida Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Michael Imperioli and Bracco.
The star’s son Michael Gandolfini was only 14 at the time, but has since become an actor himself.
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