Lorraine Bracco Was “Upset” With Dr. Melfi’s Final Scene

“You do not spend seven years with somebody after which discard them.”

In a current episode of the Speaking Sopranos podcast, actress Lorraine Bracco revealed she was “upset” over how her character Dr. Melfi’s arc ended. The episode of The Sopranos in query issues “The Blue Comet,” which is the penultimate episode of the collection. Melfi had been a staple of The Sopranos from the start, and Bracco felt that her character’s choice to finish her remedy periods with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) was uncharacteristic and an odd alternative for her character.

The Speaking Sopranos podcast is hosted by Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa, who performed Christopher Moltisanti and Bobby Baccalieri respectively. Bracco mentioned the next when on the current podcast episode:

“I bear in mind being upset [with] the course that David [Chase] was bringing Melfi. I simply felt like he needed me to do away with [Tony]. I felt that he did it in a really abrupt means. I don’t assume that she ought to have executed it that means. I might have preferred for it to have been extra significant. I believe she cared for Tony. Despite the fact that he was a f***-up and he was by no means going to essentially straighten out. However I believe she actually cared for him. You don’t spend seven years with somebody and [then] discard them. I felt unhealthy about that.”

To make clear on Melfi’s choice, she attends a cocktail party the place she’s suggested by colleagues {that a} current examine discovered that sociopaths usually reap the benefits of speak remedy. Melfi finally seems to be into the examine and might see the reality within the findings, in flip making use of the outcomes to her periods with Tony. Within the character’s subsequent and last second, she ends her tenure as Tony’s therapist. The entire choice clearly ticks off Tony, with him chalking up the choice to “feminine, menopausal adjustments.”

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The Tony-Dr. Melfi scenes are a few of the most iconic of the entire collection, so it is easy to grasp why Bracco feels as she does with the abrupt finish. Bracco additionally famous on the podcast that she would have most popular having Tony react to her presenting the examine to him. She felt like this is able to have been “highly effective” for Tony, and simply one other means for him to validate his prison actions. And given the entire scenes and historical past between these two, it is exhausting to not think about Bracco’s model of the ultimate occasions.

Dr. Melfi was an integral character to The Sopranos, with Bracco being nominated 3 times for Finest Lead Actress on the Primetime Emmy Awards (and as soon as for Finest Supporting Actress). She was usually pitted in opposition to her co-stars in Edie Falco and Aida Turturro. She’s additionally well-known for her position as Karen Friedman Hill in Goodfellas, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.

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