![]() ![]() Is she going to end up in an accident? Will somebody run up and shoot her? What’s going on inside? What if while she’s trying to park gunshots ring out? Will she run in and find her father and/or family dead?” That’s what “The Man in Members Only Jacket” was about. You were asking yourself, “My God what is going to happen? It’s almost over. For a lot of people they were simultaneously watching the screen and the clock seeing those minutes and seconds go by. You got to remember this was before streaming services were a thing and people watched television live. These were the final moments of what many would call an iconic television show and people were amped to see how it ended. With a laugh, he adds: “I’m still receiving checks!” It’s going to stay with me for a while,” he explains. ![]() “I can’t answer that question because I signed a contract, so…. ![]() When we caught up with Colandrea this week, he was aware that the finale’s anniversary was nearing, if only because, he shrugs, “Ten years went by!” Yet to this day, he affirms, “Everywhere I go, people still come to my restaurant for pictures and to ask the same question - ‘Did you kill him?'”Īnd his response, a decade later, remains firm and unchanged. Still, the precious little that “Man in Members Only Jacket” did was enough to spark fan speculation, often pegged to that season’s “Members Only” episode, often quoting “Sopranos Home Movies” (“You probably don’t even hear it ”) and sometimes positing that if Meadow had parallel-parked her car more quickly, she would have been seated next to her dad and thus obstructed any gunshot from the 3 o’clock direction of the men’s room. He always has to have eyes behind his head.” And can never be sure that any enemy is completely gone. The guy was like looking around the place in general…. We worked on that quite a bit so he wasn’t staring at him. I didn’t want him to look particularly menacing…. Series creator Chase himself has said, “I just wanted the guy to look over. As for how he was directed by series creator David Chase to play his wordless role (entering ahead of Anthony Jr., toying with a coffee at the counter, and then ducking into the restroom), “They asked me to be myself,” Colandrea says plainly. It would take two shoot days - of 12 and then six hours, often filming during daytime with Holsten’s windows blacked out - to lock down the fateful sequence, and always with “Don’t Stop Believin'” actually playing on set. “There I find Edie Falco, and she told me, ‘This is the part of your lifetime!'” (As he looks back, Colandrea is moved to remark, “What a beautiful lady is, just unbelievable.” James Gandolfini, who passed away almost four years ago in Rome, Italy, meanwhile is warmly remembered as being “really, really, really nice…. (played by Edie Falco and Robert Iler).Ĭolandrea says he had been “a follower” of the acclaimed HBO series (“Every Italian man would love a part in The Sopranos, and I got one!”), and yet the significance of the scene he was about to be a part of did not hit him until his next stop, in the make-up trailer. ![]() There, the wardrobe department “dressed me from head to toe,” including the Members Only-style jacket that is the linchpin of many a theory tying his unnamed character to the supposed murder of crime boss Tony Soprano (played by James Gandolfini), who at the time was enjoying a plate of onion rings with wife Carmela and son Anthony Jr. A Black Lady Sketch Show Donates Wardrobe to Nonprofit That Helps Unhoused WomenĪbout a month later, Colandrea arrived at Holsten’s Brookdale Confectionary, in Bloomfield, N.J., to begin filming the mob drama’s vexing denouement. ![]()
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