"She was very sick at the end of season one. She had emphysema and lung cancer. She was supposed to go out at end of the first season. At the end of season one, she said to me, 'David, just keep me working.' So we did."
"It's unclassifiable. It's satire and drama. I don't know how you did it. Every time I watch it, I'm amazed. This is the best show ever made. I think it is the paradigm and will remain the paradigm for as long as television or even film is being made."
David Chase, creator of The Sopranos, revealed at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria that the first season was originally planned to end with Tony Soprano smothering his mother, Livia. However, actress Nancy Marchand, who was experiencing health issues including emphysema and lung cancer, requested that Chase keep her character alive so she could continue working. Chase honored her request, and Marchand remained on the show for another season until her death in 2000. The series, which aired from 1999 to 2007, is now featured in an exhibit at the museum near where much of it was filmed at Silvercup Studios. Filmmaker Ari Aster praised the show as the greatest ever made and a paradigm for television and film.
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