Why Edie Falco Didn’t ‘Socialize’ with James Gandolfini Outside ‘The Sopranos’ Set

• Edie Falco shared some uncommon reflections on her offscreen relationship with the late James Gandolfini, who died in 2013, in Jason Bailey’s new memoir, GANDOLFINI: Jim, Tony, and the Lifetime of A Legend.
• Falco performed Carmela Soprano, spouse to Gandolfini’s mob boss Tony Soprano, on all six seasons of The Sopranos.
• She described her late costar as “a very gregarious person” and a “tremendously generous soul.”

Edie Falco’s off-camera relationship with the late James Gandolfini was not what followers would guess.

In Jason Bailey’s new memoir in regards to the late actor, who died in 2013 following a coronary heart assault, GANDOLFINI: Jim, Tony, and the Life of A Legend, launched on April 29, Falco, 61, supplied new perception into the dynamic between her and her onscreen husband when the cameras weren’t rolling on The Sopranos.

“I ­actually ­didn’t have a lot of a relationship with Jim exterior of our taking pictures relationship,” Falco said in the book. “He was a really gregarious individual, however we ­didn’t socialize. We ­didn’t have the identical group of pals.”

Issues between them have been “certainly cordial and professional,” Falco mentioned, “But we­ didn’t hang out.”

“It was not on purpose, it was just the way it was,” she continued. “I’m thinking part of me really just loved the very full, dimensional relationship I had with him as Tony. And I think maybe I only wanted that.”

Elaborating additional on their dynamics on-set, Falco, who performed Carmela, the spouse of Gandolfini’s mob boss Tony Soprano, mentioned, “We kind of stayed out of each other’s ways when we weren’t shooting, if we had a break, or if they were changing the camera angle. There was no chitchat, and there wasn’t like, ‘What do you need me to do? Should I leave?’ There was no discussion about it.”

As an alternative, the actors shared “an intrinsic understanding” of one another — and of what they wanted to get the scene proper.

Although she wasn’t notably shut with him, Falco described her costar as a “tremendously generous soul.”

She recalled that he was “always getting presents for people, doing nice things, taking care of people, families,” which echoed what lots of his different costars mentioned within the memoir, too.

Falco and Gandolfini, who was simply 51 when he died, reconnected in 2012, 5 years after the finale of The Sopranos aired.

Over dinner in New York Metropolis, Falco felt related to him for the primary time. “I truly thought, Oh, who’s this man? You realize what I imply? I so didn’t really feel near him — my very own ­doing — all through the years. And hastily I spotted, Oh, that’s proper. He was on that ­journey with me too, you already know?”

She continued of how Gandolfini had modified within the years because the present’s conclusion, “He was just easier. He smiled a lot. The stress appeared to have lifted. I daresay he definitely seemed happier, for sure.”

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Jason Bailey’s GANDOLFINI: Jim, Tony, and the Lifetime of A Legend is now out there wherever books are offered, and The Sopranos may be streamed in full on Max.