Drea de Matteo
Appearances
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Does the song come up after everything goes black?
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Like Pauly Walnuts. Do you know that he's a real germaphobe in real life? And he died. He died. I know.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
You know, I was just talking to his wife last night. She sent me an article of me defending Jim because you know who played Rosalie Aprile? Sharon Angelo? Yeah, she was posting all this stuff. Apparently some article came out or a book came out where this guy just went nuts. About what? On James Gandolfini.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Talking about his he's in the ground talking about his demons and talking about we used to party on the show like crazy we were celebrating we were like what is happening this is like Beatles vibes really we were losing our minds and we had a great time was there all of us were there were romances you had a couple no I don't think there were romances you didn't get with Johnny Sack
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
They wrote a book. They put a book out on the 25th anniversary, and it's a sensational book about Jim's demons.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
If any actor doesn't have demons, then don't go see their fucking movies because they're going to be boring. All of us actors have demons, but this guy told a story that wasn't his story to tell.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
He was like a locations manager. What the fuck does he know? Everybody's furious about it.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah, but he was never on the show. He was there in the end.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
We all were partying. No, not on set. I mean, we would drink when we had those scenes where we're eating and drinking. We always ate and drank.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah, there's that one scene with Christopher and I where we're at the funeral, we're at the Olivia's memorial.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
We were so fucking, it was an experiment.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
But they also painted our eyes red and we were like, we don't need this. We were so stoned that we couldn't do the scene.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
You're definitely going to have a big sex scene.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
You mean like if it's live? Like in the theater or like on set?
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Oh, not long. For me, it's... But then again, your life hasn't... You're not as old as me.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
He said that's for your 10-year... What's Kathy Hochul going to send you?
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Maybe she'll send you a vaccinated necklace, and she'll ask you to be one of her disciples.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
No, I don't really give a shit about it.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Well, yeah, that's the only reason why I'm not about it, because who gives a fuck?
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I mean, it killed a lot of things.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
We're promoting our streetwear clothing line because I can never wear my tennis outfit again and act on television.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Because I wasn't compliant and fun.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Let's hear about it. Ultra free is in the back of my leg.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
You got that? Fucking work out the... Just kidding.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
The website's ultrafree.co. And it's really just...
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
It's men and women, and it's like a streetwear line.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah, it's not really about politics. It's got political vibes because it was born out of it, but it's not really about that.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
It was born out of it because freedom is not cool anymore.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I don't have a choice, Adam. I didn't allow anybody.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Can we please do that? That would be so much fun. I'm your older wife. I take care of you.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Maybe the whole show is us trying to get the old lady pregnant.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Listen, we'll do the show on my OnlyFans station.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
OnlyFans? Neither did I. I never saw it until I did it.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
There's a few of them that are out of line.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I got to open my eyes. I'll just put it in the bag.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
You open your eyes. Did you just put something in your mouth?
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Oh, my God. You look like Christopher.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Wait a second. You look like fucking Michael. He does. Come on. What the fuck?
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Your nose isn't big enough. And you're cute.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
The Jews and the Italians are the same.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah, you do. You want me to count?
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Girl, I'm a man. I am the first male guest you've had.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Ladies and gentlemen, Adam fucking Friedman.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I'm going to talk in my accent for you.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yes, I only dated Jewish boys back then.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I'm the oldest person in this room right now.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah, my mom was a playwright, so I had no choice but to be stuck in the theater watching all these fucking indulgent people roll around.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
What was it called? Was it Living Theater?
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah, my mom was an Italian, and she was, you know, that was a little more conservative. It was very Italian plays. If you love The Sopranos, you would love the way my mom wrote.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
A lot of mafia stuff. A lot of mafia. Her father was Joe Babes. He was a mafioso.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah, she was a mafia princess, my mom.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Well, they say Joe Babes because he was a womanizer, but then I looked it up in the Google, and the Google says he shot a baby by accident. Your grandmother? How you doing? He shot a baby by accident. I was like, fuck, is this the reason? Really? He also was known for bringing heroin, bringing morphine, heroin.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
To the United States back in those days, so he was kind of like.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
You're not allowed to do that in the Mafia.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I did. Because I grew up in the theater, I absolutely hated watching all these fucking actors rolling around and acting like assholes. And I was forced to sit in the theater every night. So when I went to school, I wanted to do the anti-theater, which was film. I don't know. I think it's kind of similar.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I was just being rebellious, but at the same time, I was like, I know I'm going to end up in this fucking industry.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
No, well, she would write me plays when I started acting and stuff.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
She would write stuff. Well, she wrote something that was about our lives, actually, because it was called The Heart Transplant, and it was my 25th birthday. But she gave me a play about my relationship to her and my nanny. I was raised by my nanny.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
My Nicaraguan bat. We call her monkey.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Because she was a Nicaraguan. I don't know.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
She was a bat. I fucking loved her. I love her. I mean, she's dead.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Sabado Gigante is the best. It was great.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
They're not even real, half of them. But they're like the soft fake ones. The ones you just... Do they have better ones now? They have squeezies? I mean, we just had to do a photo shoot for OnlyFans.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
And this girl had the best fake boobs I have ever felt in my life.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
They make those now? They're incredible.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
They call them gummies. Gummies is that dog they the doctor calls that I don't know We're talking about their fake boobs and they were like can I may I and they look they're all feeling each other's boobs I'm like Robbie you want to come in Robbie grab the boobs.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah, no, no, no. Some girls have these really incredible fake boobs. They must be uncomfortable for them. Wow. I always wanted fake boobs. You wanted them? I always wanted some fake boobs.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah, just to keep them up. Really? These things are rolled up now. I got them rolled up in my bra.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Did you learn how to do that in Vegas? Bruno Mars. Oh, he's your Vegas showboy.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I think that comes from growing up with a writer and she's a teacher. She taught playwriting too. And I would sit through her classes a lot. I learned how to act listening to her teach the writers because the whole thing, and you would know this too, just doing what you do, it's like, If you're in a constant state of doing something all the time, then you're not going to bore anybody.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
If you're just sitting there stagnant and everything kind of falls apart. So with that show, when I first read the pilot, I read her pieces of it over the phone. And then I sent her the script. She read it. I was like, this will never get made.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Do you know that I don't really know that much about the show? You've never seen it.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
No, the kids that were on the show never watched it. When I had my podcast, I was interviewing them. Yeah, and they had never watched it, Jamie and AJ. Met on AJ, but now they watched it. AJ hasn't fucking seen the show.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
No, I was a psycho fan. I am still a psycho fan of the show. Me too. I don't even relate to having been on it. Really? I wouldn't read the scripts when we were shooting. I mean, in the beginning I did, because I couldn't believe I was even being added to the show. But in those days, being on TV wasn't cool. I was like, there, I'm kissing my friggin' movie career away. I'm not gonna do this.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
But when I was getting those scripts, I was like, I don't even care that I'm not gonna be doing films. And I would keep sending them to my mom. I was like, this is amazing.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
She was floored. Plus, my family is like steeped in the mafia.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Oh, no, that was the story. That was the story.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah, and I was never meant to be on the show anyway from the beginning. So I was like, all right. And I was done, man. I was done crying. Back in those days, like, when I was acting, I was really invested in it.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
He was choking me out. I had black eyes all day. It was fucked. I was done. You know what I mean?
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
And I didn't want to do that because I was like, it's never going to be the same.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah, it's all about that timing.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I think that watching Matt LeBlanc is one of the funniest things ever.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I mean, and they weren't protesting in front of the fucking Warner Brothers or, but we got protests all day for Sopranos from the Italian Anti-Defamation Society. They hated it.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I was like, you guys are the ones that make us look bad because you don't understand literature or art.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
I lost my shit. I had a house full of people, lots of mozzarella everywhere. Oh, you got mozzarella? You know, we did it. I was a Sunday night prepper.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Well, what did you think the ending was?
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
He's like, this bitch is fucking up my shit.
The Adam Friedland Show Podcast
The Lost Episodes - Drea de Matteo
Yeah. Okay, I think that if David Chase would have killed him, people would have been pissed. And if he didn't kill him, they would have been pissed. I thought leaving it a blank canvas was a great way to... David Chase said. Did he say it? Because I never watch the interviews of him saying it.