[20], In 1997, de Matteo opened Filth Mart, an East Village clothing store with her then-boyfriend Michael Sportes. To get back to the kitchen scene, it was so sweet when Wendy and Jax hugged—but it felt like she pulled away. 'Sons of Anarchy': Drea de Matteo on the reveal, Wendy's backstory By Mandi Bierly Updated November 12, 2014 at 12:00 PM EST Forget about me, Drea, being taken by surprise, Wendy, obviously, is completely taken off-guard when he decides to say it to him. Yeah. And even at the table reads, I’m like, “La la la la la la la la la la.” I don’t want to hear. That I didn’t have a very good or structured, loving family. I’m sure. https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drea_de_Matteo&oldid=195508712, „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“. I guess that’s what I play best, the fine line between those two things—playing someone who tries to sift through all the bulls–t and still remains loving in the end. The pilot episode aired September 3, 2008, and De Matteo continued making regular appearances into the series' sixth season. Her mother, Donna, is a playwright and playwriting teacher who has been on faculty at HB Studio,[3] and her father, Albert, was a furniture manufacturer who was owner and CEO of Avery Boardman and Carlyle. The show was cancelled after two seasons. James Minchin/FX, 'Sons of Anarchy': Drea de Matteo on the reveal, Wendy's backstory. De Matteo's role in The Sopranos was one of her earliest, helping to launch her career. But in that moment, I lost it. Caucasian-American Ab 1999 wurde sie in der Rolle der Adriana in der Erfolgsserie Die Sopranos einem internationalen Publikum bekannt. The level of emotion as you listened was perfect. We’d find out the day of the new script, and that’s it. De Matteo met up … Andrea Donna de Matteo (born January 19, 1972) is an American actress, known for her roles as Angie Bolen on ABC's Desperate Housewives, Joey Tribbiani's sister Gina on the NBC sitcom Joey, Wendy Case on FX series Sons of Anarchy, and Adriana La Cerva on the HBO drama series The Sopranos, a role for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. De Matteo played the stepmother of Steve Wilde, the main character of the FOX comedy Running Wilde, appearing in Season 1, Episode 9. I, Drea, look like a hardass, and people would assume a lot of times that the characters that I’ve played were harasses, even on The Sopranos, and I’ve actually been playing a victim all this time, playing the one who’s usually the most vulnerable, the most innocent. Drea de Matteo (* 19. Entertainment Weekly may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. De Matteo, of Italian descent,[1][2] was born in Whitestone, Queens, New York. Why not do this? I think that scene was written for that purpose. It was probably just too much for that moment. Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 4. The promo for next week’s episode shows Wendy telling Jax that she doesn’t want anymore secrets between them now. I think being able to put her arms around this man who she’s probably loved since she’s met him, and to feel that proximity and all the emotions that rush in—but she also knows that this is taboo, that this is a world of hurt for her that could send her back into the recesses of her mind. [7][8], De Matteo's role in The Sopranos was one of her earliest, helping to launch her career. The other characters on the show, they don’t care about hurting each other to protect themselves, to protect other people. Would she want revenge? I don’t know if Kurt [Sutter] gets mad at me, but I don’t always go to the table reads. Because I don’t really have much dialogue, I just had to react to what was being said. They really come from this kind of pure place, as opposed to the rest of the characters that are coming from these really mangled corners of their mind. [14][15][16][17] She officially left Desperate Housewives at the season 6 finale in 2010, due to personal reasons.[18]. So I had to be in that head space, too, like, “Holy s–t, I had no idea this was coming, and I’m not prepared.”. [28], Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, "Drea de Matteo Interview – Joey, The Sopranos, and Directing", "Drea de Matteo – NYPD Columbia Association", "Where Are Joey Tribbiani's Sisters Now? That’s fascinating. She also played Detective Tess Nazario in NBC's Shades of Blue. That I was probably a dancer in a strip club. de Matteo: Not always. I’m sure. She also played Detective Tess Nazario in NBC's Shades of Blue. [Laughs] But the one thing that you can’t deny is that the love I have inside of me for family and my friends is what rules. She has appeared in several films including Swordfish, Deuces Wild, The Perfect You, Prey for Rock & Roll and the 2005 remake of John Carpenter's 1976 action film Assault on Precinct 13. I came in with [exec producer] John Linson from the beginning, and it was just a funny little thing: “Yeah, I’ll do it.” I loved the world. Januar 2020 um 19:22 Uhr bearbeitet. All my friends are working at Endemol, so they just kind of pushed me into it to see if we could shoot a little web series on an iPhone—and that’s what we did, we shot it on an iPhone. Drea de Matteo Photos - Actress Drea de Matteo films a scene with Dayton Callie on the set of 'Sons of Anarchy' in Los Angeles, California on June 4, 2014. That’s probably how we came together. Tess Nazario in the NBC drama series Shades of Blue, starring alongside Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta. While we wait to see what Jax does with that information, and what role Wendy plays in his investigation, EW spoke with Drea de Matteo about Wendy’s emotion in that moment, her feelings for Jax, the backstory de Matteo created for her, and her relationship with Gemma (and Nero). It’s guerrilla craziness. A lot of cursing around my children. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. [2], Drea de Matteo lernte 2001 den Country-Sänger Shooter Jennings kennen. Birthday What is happening here?” But again, we just never know where it’s going. So I had to have someone in New York on the phone with me while I watched the show tweeting for me—the guy who runs my Twitter page. It premiered on January 7, 2016. [22], De Matteo started dating musician Shooter Jennings in 2001. In this week's Sons of Anarchy, Drea de Matteo's arc on the FX drama came full circle when Jax at long last told Abel that Wendy is his real mom. Are there things you’ve talked about with Kurt, or filled in yourself, that we’ve never heard about on-screen but that always informed the way you played Wendy? TMZ reports that a car thief stole a van belonging to de Matteo, who played Wendy Case on SoA, on an undisclosed date in August. [19] In 2015, she was cast as Det. [28], Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, "Drea de Matteo Interview – Joey, The Sopranos, and Directing", "Drea de Matteo – NYPD Columbia Association", "Where Are Joey Tribbiani's Sisters Now?