The Beginning of the End for The Sopranos Wednesday, April 4, 2007—The whole Sopranos gang was out on the blood-red carpet in Manhattan last week in honor of the hit mob show’s final season premiere, airing April 8 on HBO. The atmosphere was bittersweet, as the night marked what was truly “the beginning of the end for The Sopranos,” reports Extra. In fact, actress Aida Turturro (a.k.a. Janice Soprano) admitted she was crying. “I got a little sad just thinking about it being the end.” Leading lady Edie Falco, who plays Carmela Soprano on the hit series that debuted back in 1999, also admitted that the night was hard. “I didn’t expect it to be as…heavy as it has turned out to be (Extra).” The star of the show, James Gandolfini, who plays mobster and patriarch Tony Soprano, didn’t have much to say to anyone besides his date for the evening and actor Daniel Baldwin, who is reportedly going to be guest-starring as himself for The Sopranos’ final season. Baldwin recently made headlines for allegedly helping the newly divorced and struggling Britney Spears during her rehab stint—a rumor which he confirmed that night.
But that’s not what everyone’s talking about (after all, Spears gets enough publicity elsewhere)—everyone wants to know how the final season of The Sopranos is going to pan out. After all, most of the scenes for the last season have reportedly all been shot already. Tony Sirico (Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri) mentioned at the Manhattan event that his scenes are all completed, including his final scene that he says made a whole bunch of viewers cry. Lorraine Bracco, however, who plays Tony Soprano’s shrink Dr. Jennifer Melfi, says her final scene with Gandolfini has yet to be shot. Did anything of significance leak out at the red carpet event? Unfortunately, not really. While Extra caught wind of a few whispers here and there that “a key character gets whacked early on,” Sopranos creator David Chase insists otherwise. “Nobody gets whacked.” Really? Nobody? That’s hard to believe—considering the premise of the show seems to be at least partially centered on whacking and getting whacked; after all, this is the mob, isn’t it? Not to mention the fact that throughout its eightish-year history, The Sopranos has had no qualms about killing off its most popular characters, something you won’t see often in television. Chase has killed off characters such as Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero, played by Vincent Pastore, Richie Aprile (David Proval), Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi), and Adriana La Cerva, played be Drea de Matteo, who became well-known as Joey Tribbiani’s (Matt LeBlanc) sister Gina on the Friends spin-off Joey after her Sopranos character got whacked. And let’s not be too quick to forget about the death of Vito Spatavore (Joe Ganniscoli), killed just last season after the Sopranos learned of his homosexuality (although Phil Leotardo and his posse—not Tony—were responsible). But now the big question is whether Tony Soprano is going to live through to the end of the series. Only time will tell. How the famed series is ultimately going to wrap up is really anybody’s guess. The only surefire way to get the goods yourself is to tune into The Sopranos on HBO on Sunday nights, starting with none other than Easter Sunday. —CL
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