For years, followers of The Sopranos would have heated debates over the polarizing finale of the HBO drama. Did the Soprano household survive? Did Tony and Carmela keep married? Did Meadow ever learn to parallel park? These had been all questions that we by no means knew the solutions to… till now. Type of.
Within the 2021 sports activities docuseries Shattered: Hope, Heartbreak and the New York Knicks it was revealed (and now relayed by Hollywood Reporter) that, in 2010, the New York Knicks employed a collection of iconic New York-adjacent celebrities and actors to pursue LeBron James to affix the Knicks. Among the many checklist had been James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, who reprised their roles of Tony and Carmela, three years after the collection finale aired. So… they lived!
The unique video was produced by Rocco Caruso, and it was just lately found by sports activities podcaster Pablo Torre. Within the brief scene, Tony and Carmela are sitting in a New York condo (Falco confirmed that it was Gandolfini’s) after being within the witness safety program. “Yeah, life’s good right here Carm, even when we’re within the witness safety program,” Tony says earlier than the 2 focus on their “pal” LeBron James.
That magic occurs after the 9:30 mark beneath.
“They thought, ‘Wouldn’t or not it’s humorous if we might someway begin the piece with The Sopranos?’ as a result of it had simply kind of ended,” Caruso recalled to The Hollywood Reporter on the time. “And I mentioned, ‘I do know Edie … I might ship her an e-mail,’ and he or she mentioned ‘Nice. I’ll do it.’”
Falco was stunned that Gandolfini was on board. “We received these requests on a regular basis again then and Jim Gandolfini, he did nothing. And someway he agreed to this factor, which I used to be shocked by. I believed it was a prank when somebody mentioned Jim’s going to do it. And there we had been, dressed as our characters. And I used to be considering, ‘This will’t probably be taking place.’” It undoubtedly occurred, although it may not be thought-about “canon.”
Sadly, the hassle was wasted as LeBron James didn’t find yourself with the Knicks. Possibly it had one thing to do with the opposite clips which featured Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Chris Rock, Mike Bloomberg, Alex Baldwin, and Harvey Weinstein? It was… a distinct time. Not less than we received some Sopranos trivia out of it.
(By way of The Hollywood Reporter)
