James Gandolfini Finally Breaks Silence On The Infamous 'Sopranos' Ending

[Brian Damage]

James Gandolfini, who played Tony Soprano in HBO’s long-running Jersey mob drama “The Sopranos,” says that like many of the show’s fans, he was baffled at first by the show’s ambiguous ending, the New York Post reports.

Gandolfini talks about the infamous ending in a new oral history of the show that runs in April’s issue of Vanity Fair, the story reports.

Says Gandolfini: “When I first saw the ending, I said, ‘What the f--k?’ I mean, after all I went through, all this death, and then it’s over like that?”

At the end of the final episode, the screen goes dark with Tony Soprano and his family apparently being circled by would-be assassins in a restaurant. Many fans of the show saw the fade-out as a cop-out.

But Gandolfini, for one, eventually came around.

“After I had a day to sleep, I just sat there and said, ‘That’s perfect,’” the actor says.

Also commenting on the show’s ending was Lorraine Bracco, who played Dr. Jennifer Melfi.

The actress says in the Vanity Fair piece: “I would have wanted it to end differently. But God knows we’ve talked about that ending for five years now -- we’re still talking about it. People stop me in the street. ‘Did you get the ending? Did I miss something?’ I thought it was very, very shrewd.”

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/

[robyrob]

he just don't know when to keep his big mouth shut...

*assassins quietly circle James Gandolphini*