The actress-singer guest appeared in the James Gandolfini-led crime drama years before rising to stardom, but there’s something about The Sopranos that haunts her to this day.
One of the greatest TV series of all time, The Sopranos was a more modern take on Francis Ford Coppola’s Italian mafia in The Godfather, so no wonder Italian descendant Stefani Germanotta aka Lady Gaga was also in there at some point.
Several years before releasing her debut album “The Fame” in 2008 and launching a successful acting career with A Star Is Born, the singer could be briefly seen in one of The Sopranos’ episodes in season 3.
Despite not having much to say there anyway, Lady Gaga has recently reflected on her first acting experience in the show, revealing that she knows why her performance was far from good.
Lady Gaga Played Girl at Swimming Pool #2 in ‘The Sopranos’ Season 3 Episode 9
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Credited under her real name Stefani Germanotta, the singer-actress had several seconds of screen time when she appeared in episode 9, watching AJ Soprano and his friends vandalize the high school pool while Gaga’s character and other girls were witnessing it from the bleachers.
In the scene, she’s seen laughing and smoking cigarettes, yet she doesn’t have a single line in the episode.
Lady Gaga Says She “Didn’t Know How to Listen In a Scene” in ‘The Sopranos’
With four Academy Award nominations and one win under her belt, it’s fair to say Gaga has gone through some essential studies to join the list of some of the most promising actors in modern Hollywood.
This, however, also allowed her to see through her debut acting performance which, even this short, wasn’t as perfect as the singer-actress would have wanted it to be.
“When I look back on that scene, I can see exactly what I did wrong. I didn't know how to listen in a scene," she added. "I was supposed to laugh, and it was sort of like, cue, laugh.... I see it and I go, 'oh, that's not a real laugh”, Gaga once revealed on an episode of Entertainment Weekly’s Awardist podcast.
She then added that she still managed to grow into a much more mature and professional artist in front of the camera, realizing that there’s never a limit for an actor who strives to be better.
“I see a very non-specific actor [on "The Sopranos"], and now I see myself as someone who is at least really striving to be specific without thinking about it, and that requires a lot of work ahead of time”, Gaga said later.
