Edie Falco Recalls "Sopranos "Guest Star" "Having a 'Very Hard Time' with His Lines, Says Scene 'Went on for Hours and Hours' Tereza Shkurtaj, Raven BrunnerSun, March 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC 0 Sully Boyar; Edie Falco.Credit: HBO Max On Feb. 27, 2026, Edie Falco took part in a panel discussion at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City David Chase and Dominic Chianese were also in attendance as the museum honored the acclaimed HBO series, The Sopranos During a Q&A session that evening, Falco recalled what it was like working with the late Sully Boyar Edie Falco revisited one of the most...
Edie Falco Recalls "Sopranos "Guest Star" "Having a 'Very Hard Time' with His Lines, Says Scene 'Went on for Hours and Hours'
Tereza Shkurtaj, Raven BrunnerSun, March 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC
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Sully Boyar; Edie Falco.Credit: HBO Max -
On Feb. 27, 2026, Edie Falco took part in a panel discussion at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City
David Chase and Dominic Chianese were also in attendance as the museum honored the acclaimed HBO series, The Sopranos
During a Q&A session that evening, Falco recalled what it was like working with the late Sully Boyar
Edie Falco revisited one of the most memorable chapters of her career at the Museum of the Moving Image, where The Sopranos was honored with a special exhibition.
The evening included a screening of the season 3 episode, "A Second Opinion," followed by a panel discussion with series creator David Chase and cast member Dominic Chianese. Falco, who played Carmela Soprano throughout the show's groundbreaking run, reflected on filming the episode and working alongside veteran actor Sully Boyar, who portrayed psychiatrist Dr. Krakower.
"He was old and he was having a very hard time with the lines. Like really, could not get even a sentence out," Falco, 62, told the panel. "Those of us who were in our 30s were like, 'Oh my God.' Then you start getting close to that age. I see how it sneaks up on you, but you suddenly can imagine that happening."
Sully Boyar.Credit: HBO Max
Falco explained that filming the scene required patience and creativity as Boyar struggled to remember his dialogue while in character as the psychiatrist Carmela sought out during the episode.
"He couldn't remember the lines. Went on for hours and hours," she said, noting that they would "say a few words to him and then roll the camera real quick" so he could remember.
"Eventually, what ended up happening is we had cue cards with the letters written really large," she continued. "So when the camera was on him, I was holding the cue card. And I had to move the cards up slowly [so] it looked like he was looking into my eyes."
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"And that's eventually how it came to be," she added. "And then you see the scene, you're like, nobody in the world would ever know that. He was incredible and it was incredible."
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James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano; Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano.Credit: HBO/Getty
Despite the behind-the-scenes challenges, the finished scene felt seamless. The episode became another milestone for Falco, who earned her second Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2001 for her work during the show's third season.
Already widely praised for bringing depth and complexity to Carmela, Falco continued to collect awards throughout the series' run, including a third Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama.
Boyar, a longtime character actor, later died in 2001 from cancer at age 77, not long after his appearance on the acclaimed HBO drama.
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