”The Sopranos’ and ‘Sex and the City’ shared studio space, but no one touches Tony’s meatballs

Sharing directors is one thing, but aspetta on catering.

The last episode of Are you a charlotte?Kristin Davis’ charming podcast of Rewatch of Kristin Davis Sex and cityhas the director Allen Coulter, one of the HBO internal authors during their years of climb in the late 1990s. And although the two shows had very different audiences and tones, he was the first of several directors to cross Sopranos has Sex and city (and vice versa) at that time.

Indeed, the two shows being Early HBO Productions shared many resources, including indoor shooting places. Davis recalled an era when the two series turned in Silvercup Studios in Queens (you may know his roof of the 1986 action fantasy Highlander), where, unfortunately, there was not quite the generosity between the programs of brother as she hoped.

“Remember this intermediate area of Silvercup, because it was the transplant, so it was not really an appropriate studio?” Davis asked its former director. “And the different stages would have a common area of the corridors, and Sopranos would have their artisanal services, which was like going to the best Italian restaurant that you could imagine. And our craft services were really, really … not that. “”

Davis, always polite, quickly added: “No offense to anyone who did it. But we would be just like:” How can we get there and get food? “And they keep this food, do you know what I mean? And we would be like:” Please, can we have meatballs? “”

Davis also explained: “At the time of 15, you really want it Sopranos Meatballs, but you can’t have them. “”

Coulter apologized in the name of “the crowd moved you from food”, which then sparked a memory which he had, as one of the few having an intimate knowledge of the internal functioning of the two emissions.

What you should probably know is that in most films, programs, television advertisements – all that involves actors eating food – the people of the camera generally do not swallow what is on their plate. When it took 16, it would lead to a large Agita. But Sopranos was special.

“I remember that we have shot a scene at Bada Bing, you know, the so-called back-room of Bada Bing, where they all have lunch and pasta. Sex and cityYou always have a spit bugger. “”

Coulter continued: “So we pulled that and I went and I looked at the guys and the guys had the spindle bucket on the table there, but it’s completely clean. I said:” What is the problem there? “They said,” They eat everything “. So we made four taken and they ate four meals.”

But Davis added that, surprisingly, on SatcThey never used a spindle bucket either.

“I think it was because Michael [Patrick King] And I have the impression also Darren [Star] I really wanted us to eat and continue to speak. So, as, we didn’t really have the opportunity to say to ourselves: “Okay, spits”. You know?”

Davis then noted, however, that “we will order something that was not going to be crazy, no, for eight million outlets or other”.

We assume that if they were spread over Artie Bucco Zuppa di Mussels Or cannelloni With fresh Béchamel, it would be another story.

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