Jamie-Lynn Sigler wishes she could do one more episode of The Sopranos with James Gandolfini

“Jim was the type of scene partner where it felt like he was there and his only intention was to make me as good as I could be,” the actress said.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler was only a teenager when she made her TV debut as Tony Soprano’s daughter Meadow on The Sopranos in 1999 — and now, she’s reflecting on her time working with James Gandolfini on the acclaimed series.

In an interview with Michael Rosenbaum for his Inside of You podcast, the 42-year-old actress said that she wishes The Sopranos team could reunite for one more episode. “I wish we could just do one week of filming right now, because of my awareness of the world and what that [show] was and what we were a part of… I just wish I could experience it, like one episode, give me one episode right now,” she said. “Just drop me back in for a couple days.”

After Rosenbaum asked her what she’d want the hypothetical episode to be about, Sigler responded, “The family, some sort of internal struggle with the family, so a family-heavy one. I always loved moments when Meadow and Tony got quiet together. And it was — all our scenes when we would get quiet together the dialogue would actually be really limited. It would just be these heavy, pregnant pauses.”

The actress went on to praise her onscreen father’s generosity when he performed with her. “Jim was the type of scene partner where it felt like he was there and his only intention was to make me as good as I could be,” Sigler recalled. “And it had nothing to do with him. Every time I worked with him, I felt like his sole purpose was… ‘I’m going to help you give your best f—ing take, Jamie.'”

Sigler also clarified that she didn’t feel as though she was helping Gandolfini in the same way, but instead was “just watching a really amazing artist.” She said that the late actor displayed a vulnerability that made her feel more secure in her craft. “It had nothing to do with his confidence, ’cause [he] was actually not [confident],” she revealed. “He would question himself. There would be moments where he’d be like, ‘I f—ing suck,’ but I appreciated that because I’ve had those thoughts but I didn’t say them out loud because I don’t want anybody to know that I think I suck. He was confident enough to say it out loud.”

Sigler added that she thinks Gandolfini’s openness came from his affection for his work. “I guess there was a confidence there, but I think it came more from him deeply caring,” she said. “Deeply, deeply caring. He was an exceptional human being.”