Sopranos Drama: Edie Falco, 60, Says She Was ‘Terrified’ of Jamie-Lynn Sigler, 42, While Filming ‘Sopranos’
“Sopranos” star Edie Falco, 60, says she was intimidated by her on-screen daughter, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, during the popular crime drama because she felt out of place. “I was a weirdo,” Falco claimed while talking to fellow actress Christina Applegate, who lives with multiple sclerosis, on her podcast.
Applegate, 52, and Sigler, 42, cohost a podcast where they discuss various topics, including how they are coping with multiple sclerosis.
Falco joined the duo to reflect on her time onset of the “Sopranos.”
“I saw you as a highly function type-A young woman,” Falco told Sigler during a recent episode.
“There was a distance between you and I when we worked (on the Sopranos),” Falco said.
“The truth is, when I was a kid in high school, I was a weirdo. I came from a crazy family, and I felt like everybody could tell I was a weirdo. I would meet girls like you, and I was terrified of them,” Falco explained.
“They just looked like they knew what was going on…They knew how to function at a high level and always do a good job,” Falco continued.
To Falco’s surprise, Sigler replied that she often felt “undeserving” of a spot on the popular show.
“I was waiting to be found out that, like, I shouldn’t have been there or didn’t belong,” Sigler said.
Aside from spending time in Hollywood, Applegate, Sigler, and Falco all share in common battling a health condition. Sigler was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) when she was 20. Applegate was diagnosed with MS at 49.
Falco was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003 smack dab in the middle of filming “The Sopranos.”
