Drea de Matteo On The Hardest 'The Sopranos' Scene To FIlm & Show Exit
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00:00Did you film two scenes with Adriana, one where she lives and one where she doesn't?
00:07Yeah.
00:08What happened when she lived?
00:10Well, he said, when I asked David, I said, David, am I... because I wanted to go direct a film.
00:14In those days, I was still thinking I was going to be a director, because I told you Sopranos was my first acting job.
00:20And I asked him and he sat me down on episode five, season five, and he said, I'm going to shoot it two ways.
00:29I'm going to shoot it one where you get away and one where you live.
00:34And I was like, so what does that mean? Can I go direct this film?
00:38Yes.
00:39And he's like, well, I'm telling you that you're going to be done.
00:42Because I want to know if I had a little time in between.
00:44Sure, yeah, yeah.
00:45I kind of wanted to know if I was going to be killed.
00:47Right.
00:48Because it wasn't going anywhere good.
00:52And he said, no one's going to know because the confidentiality on the show was so huge.
00:57So we shot it two ways and it was just me with my suitcase in the car.
01:01It's exactly what you saw.
01:02Sure.
01:03So he could have used that ending and she could have lived.
01:05I had already taken another job.
01:07Right.
01:08And I got in trouble for that.
01:09Sure.
01:10Because it leaked and it wasn't supposed to leak.
01:12And then he was like, I thought that you knew that you weren't supposed to...
01:16I was like, it wasn't me.
01:17And I think I had to go on a talk show and diffuse it.
01:22But, yeah.
01:23So she just got dropped off at like a train station and that was it?
01:27It was the, she got shot in the back of the head.
01:29Well, yeah, yeah.
01:30No, but the other ending.
01:31No, that one was her driving with her suitcases next to her.
01:35Okay, so she was just by herself.
01:36Yes.
01:37Okay.
01:38Yes, it was her getting away crying.
01:39Right.
01:40I don't even remember shooting that.
01:41That's crazy.
01:42I'm sure it's still hard to watch, I would imagine, that scene.
01:44The death scene?
01:45Yeah.
01:46No.
01:47No, it was, you know what was hard?
01:49Getting Stevie to be okay with it.
01:51I was like, Stevie, I have dinner to be at.
01:53Right, just do it.
01:54I'm done.
01:55I am not coming back next year.
01:57I have already moved on.
01:58I need you to take care of business right now.
02:00Stop being so precious.
02:02Have a good time.
02:03Let's go.
02:04The hard scene for me was the one where I confessed to Michael.
02:06That was, I was okay with it at the time.
02:10I was petrified to leave the show.
02:12But at the same time, I didn't know if I could sustain how much crying I had to do.
02:17And back in those days, when you're a younger actor, you're really going there for every scene.
02:22Sure, yeah.
02:23There's no, you know, give me a tear stick or give me some onions.
02:28No, you're killing off your entire family.
02:32I would look at pamphlets of animals dying.
02:35I was doing everything I could to be hysterical.
02:37Sure.
02:38And I was ready to do some comedy.