[This story contains spoilers for The Sopranos season five.]
It seems someone working on The Sopranos set couldn’t be trusted.
During a recent interview with The Independent, Steve Schirripa, who played Bobby Baccalieri on the Emmy-winning series, claimed someone who worked on the show was leaking information, which resulted in the actors only getting their own pages of the script by the end.
“There was a leak on set because somebody was selling information. We had some suspects,” Schirripa recalled. However, the culprit was never caught.
To help keep plot details under wraps, creator David Chase also came up with his own plan, specifically for a major spoiler in the season five episode, “Long Term Parking.” Chase filmed two different versions of the scene about Adriana La Cerva’s (Drea De Matteo), Christopher Moltisanti’s girlfriend, fate.
In 2017, Matteo detailed Chase’s plan during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, recalling, “David came to me and said, ‘I’m going to shoot this two ways: I’m going to kill you and I’m going to let you live. And nobody’s going to know until it airs.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m dying, for sure, but why shoot it two ways?’ He said one reason was he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do, and the other was to keep confidentiality on set. He would go that far to divert the crew from being able to leak anything.”
The Sopranos, which won 21 Emmys during its six-season run, from 1999 to 2007, centered on New Jersey mob boss, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), as he struggles to balance the demands of his violent criminal organization with a dysfunctional family life.
