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- "The Sopranos" refused to share food with "Sex and the City" while filming in same studio: 'You can't come over here!'</p>
<p>Jordan HoffmanJuly 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM</p>
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<p>Sarah Jessica Parker and James Gandolfini</p>
<p>Sharing directors is one thing, but aspetta on the catering.</p>
<p>The latest episode of Are You a Charlotte?, Kristin Davis' charming rewatch podcast of Sex and the City, boasts director Allen Coulter, one of the in-house auteurs at HBO during their years of ascent in the late 1990s. And though the two shows had greatly different audiences and tones, he was the first of several directors to cross from The Sopranos to Sex and the City (and back again) in those days.</p>
<p>Indeed, both shows being early HBO productions shared many resources, including indoor shooting locations. Davis recalled a time when both series were filming at Silvercup Studios in Queens (you may know its roof from the 1986 action-fantasy Highlander), where, unfortunately, there wasn't quite the generosity between the sibling shows as she had hoped for.</p>
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<p>A "family" meal, from season 3 of 'The Sopranos'</p>
<p>"Remember that middle area of Silvercup, because it had been the bread factory, so it wasn't really a proper studio?" Davis asked her old director. "And the different stages would have a common area of hallways, and The Sopranos would have their craft services, which was like going to the best Italian restaurant that you could possibly imagine. And our craft services was really, really... not that."</p>
<p>Davis, always polite, quickly added, "No offense to anyone who made it. But we would just be like, 'How can we get over there and get the food?' And they would guard that food, do you know what I mean? They'd be like, 'No. You can't come over here.' And we'd be like, 'Please, can we have some meatballs?'"</p>
<p>Davis further explained, "On hour 15, you're really wanting the Sopranos meatballs, but you can't have them."</p>
<p>Coulter apologized on behalf of "the mob was keeping you away from the food," which then triggered a memory he had, as one of the few with intimate knowledge of the inner workings of both shows.</p>
<p>What you probably is that in most movies, shows, television commercials — anything that involves actors eating food — the people on camera usually don't actually swallow what's on their plate. When it gets to take 16, this would lead to great agita. But The Sopranos was special.</p>
<p>"I remember we were shooting a scene at the Bada Bing, you know, the so-called backroom of the Bada Bing, where they're all having lunch and pasta and stuff. When shooting an eating scene, and this would be true of Sex and the City, you always have a spit bucket."</p>
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<p>A Sunday dinner with the Sopranos</p>
<p>Coulter continued, "So we're shooting that and I go over and I was looking at the guys and the guys had the spit bucket up on the table there, but it's completely clean. I said, 'What's the deal there?' They said, 'They just eat everything.' So we did, like, four takes and they would eat four meals."</p>
<p>But Davis added that, surprisingly, on SATC, they never used a spit bucket either.</p>
<p>"I think it was because Michael [Patrick King] and I feel like also Darren [Star] really wanted us to eat and keep talking. So, like, we didn't really have the opportunity to be like, 'Okay, spit.' You know?"</p>
<p>Davis then noted, however, that "we would order something that wasn't gonna be insane, right, for eight million takes or whatever."</p>
<p>One assumes that if they were chowing down on Artie Bucco's zuppa di mussels or cannelloni with the fresh béchamel, it would be a different story.</p>
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<p>Dining with the ladies from 'Sex and the City'</p>
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