Edie Falco And James Gandolfini In Competition At Sundance

Actress Edie Falco (The Sopranos, Nurse Jackie) is at Sundance this week. She sat down to chat about her upcoming movie and the ups and downs of being recognized.

Edie’s new movie, ’3 Backyards’, is showing at Sundance and it’s competing against her former Sopranos co-star James Gandolfini in ‘Welcome To The Riley’s’. Edie’s character is a housewife who gets excited when a famous movie star moves in next door to her. Falco’s character is overjoyed when her famous neighbor (Embeth Davidtz) asks for a ride to the ferry. The drive turns bitter as Davidtz’s movie star fails to open up and show the sort of intimacy or kinship for which Falco’s character had hoped.

She chats about her character and how she can relate to both sides of this movie:

“I know what that interaction is like – famous person, non-famous person – and I’ve been on both sides of it, and it’s sort of fascinating, sweet, naive and nauseating. It’s all those things, depending on where you are in that equation.”

Edie shared that while playing Carmella Soprano, she was rarely noticed by fans because she looks so differently in real life. However, she’s finding that her character on “Nurse Jackie” more closely resembles her:

“We are sort of similar looking, and I’m getting a lot more attention than I had anticipated,” Falco said. “I am not going to complain about anything. Everybody dreams of being in the situation that I’m in, but it doesn’t suit my lifestyle. I’m quiet, and I kind of keep to myself, and I’ve always been that way.

Despite her famous roles, she maintains that she is very normal:

“I’m really so normal. I’m really like as regular a person as you’re going to come across, and I’ve been a regular person far longer than I’ve been anything else,” Falco said

She sounds very grounded, doesn’t she?

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