Post by Cal VarnsenWell, the scene where we see Melfi's face and chest in season 5 could
easily have been her face and some other woman's breasts. It wouldn't
be hard at all to get some nice-breasted woman to do the scene and then
just stick melfi's face on her. Didn't they essentially do that with
Nancy Marchand to work around her passing? I read somewhere that there
were a few scenes in the early episodes of the season in which Livia
Soprano dies (3?) where it's Marchand's face over some other gal's
body.
Now if we could only get melfi's face and livia's breasts.......well,
that would really be a site.
1) Bracco said that she did the topless scene. Now, that doesn't have to
mean a lot except that she had done recent nudity on the stage in "The
Graduate," so it's not like she's shy or anything.
2) Frankly, the Nancy Marchand visual effect looked very obviously fake,
and not just because she was already dead. Whereas I watched the Bracco
scene several times (!) and didn't detect any chicanery. Plus
Bracco/Melfi was seen in the reflection of a mirror, which in my mind
would make faking it even harder.
3) While Melfi's breasts looked very nice, they didn't look like those
of a 25-year-old starlet. One of the mistakes almost always done with
body doubles is casting women who are way too young to match the
actresses they are stripping down for. These were age appropriate
breasts.
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3finger
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