Edie Falco Reveals She Had Laryngitis While Filming The Sopranos Episode in Paris
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As a result of her unexpected illness, the actress explained, “I shot the whole episode just mouthing the words. So when I got back to New York, I had to loop the whole thing. It was all done remotely.”
The Sopranos ran for six seasons from 1999 to 2007. The crime drama, created by Chase, starred the late Gandolfini as a troubled Mafia boss from New Jersey. Falco, meanwhile, played Tony’s wife Carmela. The Emmy‑winning series also starred Chianese, Michael Imperioli, Jamie‑Lynn Sigler, Lorraine Bracco and Robert Iler, among many others.
The Museum of the Moving Image event celebrated the opening of the Stories and Set Designs for The Sopranos exhibition. The museum hosted a series of special screenings followed by talks with Chase and various cast members. Falco also reflected on the show’s legacy during the panel. “Every once in a while I’ll be watching something, sort of half paying attention, and they’ll make a comment about The Sopranos. It’s completely surreal that, from a personal standpoint, I serendipitously was part of this thing that’s being talked about in other shows and that other people are watching.”
“Here we are, 400 years after we leave the show, and people are still talking about it,” the actress added. Falco called her involvement in the series “one of the bigger emotional experiences of my life.”
“As an actor, you want to feel like you touched people, or you reached them and somehow connected with them even in a small way. So the moments when I hear us mentioned in other things, it’s like getting a blast of energy or something. I’m tickled to death by it,” she said
