Drea De Matteo On Revisiting ‘The Sopranos’ & The Evolving Depiction Of Italian Women In Mob Dramas

May 27, 2020 1133

BY: Mike Fleming Jr

As evidence that there is still fertile terrain to explore in the HBO series The Sopranos more than two decades after the show’s premiere, Drea De Matteo teams with pal Chris Kushner on Made Women. The weekly podcast is the second one involving regulars from that David Chase-created drama, as Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa are also re-watching and breaking down episodes.

De Matteo started her career playing Adriana La Cerva, a pretty restaurant hostess who becomes the fiancee of Christopher Moltisanti (Imperioli), the nephew of Tony Soprano. She was the innocent sucked into the insidious criminal underbelly, and De Matteo followed with a long career in series and movies. Podcasts seem a natural for the drama, because youths inhale them and they are discovering the series on streamer outlets.

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SOURCE: https://deadline.com

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