“I Wrote The Sopranos to Get Over My Mother Wishing Me Dead” 💥 David Chase Revisits the Pain Behind TV’s Greatest Mob Drama

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“I Wrote The Sopranos to Get Over My Mother Wishing Me Dead” 💥 David Chase Revisits the Pain Behind TV’s Greatest Mob Drama

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David Chase Says The Sopranos Came From One Wound He Could Never Really Shake

Some TV creators talk about their biggest hit like it arrived from pure inspiration. David Chase is not doing that.

In the interview you shared, Chase says something far more blunt — and far more revealing.

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Looking back on The Sopranos, he admits that he essentially wrote the series to get over the damage left by his mother, even recalling that during the Vietnam era she once told him she would rather see him dead than avoid the draft.

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