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Edie Falco's difficult decision - Radio Times, November 2000 |
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The actress tells Bill Hagerty how she was forced to choose between Broadway and The Sopranos.
"It was great news for a little-known actor, concedes 36-year-old Edie Falco, mob boss Tony's feisty wife Carmela in hit series The Sopranos. Almost simultaneously, Falco was told that the play she had worked on since its first ever reading in a New York basement was Broadway-bound and a television pilot she had made was to be a series on the HBO network.
There was only one problem: both projects needed her at the same time.
"I had been with Side Man from the start," says the Long Island daughter
of a jazz drummer dad and actress mother, "and we were waiting to hear if
there was likely to be another production. Meanwhile, life goes on. I did
auditions and one of the jobs I got was the pilot of The Sopranos. I've done
a lot of pilots and thought, 'Well, it's two weeks' work,' and forgot about it.
"Then I found out Side Man was moving to Broadway and The Sopranos
had been picked up for a season. It was completely unfathomable to me
that I was going to have to let go of one of them. It was so painful.
"Every actor dreams of doing a show on Broadway. But I walked
away, and I was shooting The Sopranos when Side Man opened to
lovely reviews - that my friends kept showing me!"
But Falco, who lives with her boyfriend, actor/director John
Devlin, ended up with the best of both worlds. She won a best
actress Emmy award last year for The Sopranos, and when
Side Man - Warren Leight's poignant story of a jazz
musician's family - transferred to a different Broadway
theatre, she rejoined the cast, and later starred in the
play's successful London run. "What's more," says
Falco, "while I'm still as talented or untalented as
I ever was, Side Man started to advertise me as
'Edie Falco from The Sopranos'!"
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Now take a look at our full guide to The Sopranos.
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