1999 - Season One, Episode Six - Pax Soprano
James Gandolfini walked onto the set wearing his dressing gown which covered his white vest and boxers. He didn't feel totally comfortable walking around in his vest and boxers just yet, but in this scene he was going to be mostly covered by a sheet. He reminded himself that he would get to spend the next hour with Lorraine Bracco lying over him topless, hidden under the sheet, so he told himself he should be looking forward to that. After having already filmed some scenes with her as Tony Soprano's psychiatrist, Dr Jennifer Melfi, he was already finding his mind wandering and starting to wonder what was hidden under those clothes, and now he was about to see, unless she got shy and kept herself totally hidden from him.
In this scene he was to be dreaming about getting a blowjob from a figure, which is initially hidden under a black satin sheet, but then emerges for him to see it is Dr Melfi he has been dreaming about, so Lorraine would not only be topless, she would be moving around on him pretending to suck him off. "Not a bad day at work," he thought.
The Director came over to James and said that Lorraine was running late, and they were not sure when she would get there. He was frustrated. "We have to start filming soon...I don't know where the hell she is," and with that he walked off, pulling his cell phone from his pocket.
There appeared to be a few other people trying to locate Lorraine and James watched as some others went off to try to get some information.
Ten minutes passed and James started to get agitated himself with nothing happening, but then the Director came back onto the set and walked up to James.
"Jamie-Lynn is outside and she said she will step in on this scene...alright?, So let's get it going," the Director said.
"Hang on, what? Jamie is going to do it? But... does she know it's a ... you know... a kind of sex scene. I mean I pretend to get sucked off in this one and she'd need to be...well the script says she's to be topless."
"Of course she fucking knows," he was becoming exasperated, "sorry, yes, she does know what's involved and I explained to her about having to be topless, even under the sheet in case of any views under that we do get. And she's literally just turned 18 years old so we're lucky on that one. Look, I know it's not ideal but we need to start this scene, like now."
"Okay, okay," James nodded.
The Director turned and gave the nod to someone and they went away round a corner to collect Jamie-Lynn Sigler.
Jamie-Lynn played Tony Soprano's daughter, Meadow, so was James's on-screen daughter which is one of the reasons he felt a little uncomfortable with the situation. The other reasons were that in the time he worked with her over the recent months doing the first five episodes, he had started to fantasise about her. There was no doubting she was beautiful, with her shoulder length dark hair and deep dark eyes. But it wasn't those features he had fantasized about. It was her body, her slim hips over her rounded ass and perky teenage breasts.
He had enjoyed filming the previous episode where Tony Soprano took Meadow to see prospective colleges and he had filmed some one on one scenes with her in a car and a restaurant, and he had he realised how beautiful she was and they spent alot of time just talking when they weren't filming. It was after filming this episode that he found himself starting to fantasise about her.
He never thought that so soon after that he'd be working with her being topless. He told himself that she was to be hidden under the sheet anyway and probably wouldn't see anything, though he'd have a good try to see something.
People started to wander back in and then in came Jamie-Lynn. He saw she was wearing a white robe which was pulled tight across her chest. He instinctively glanced down at her breasts to see if he could see her nipples and quickly looked away hoping he hadn't been caught.
He started to get nervous and swept his hand across his receding hair. He went and sat down on the edge of the bed.
The Director led Jamie-Lynn over then turned to the crew saying "OK, anyone not got a job to do on this one...out! We don't need any more than necessary," and with that people started to turn to leave, some visibly disappointed. One went round and lit all the candles around the bed as this was to be a dimly lit scene, and then someone turned the lights down.
As the people dispersed, Jamie-Lynn walked closer to James and looked him in the eye. She was nervous as hell, and was breathing deeply to try to calm herself down.
"Hi," James said, "um, it's good of you to step in on this scene, you didn't have to."
"Well, Lorraine hasn't arrived yet and Edie and Drea aren't on set til later, so I guess I was just lucky to be here to volunteer for it."
"You volunteered? I thought they pushed you to do it," James said.
"No, I said I would. I wanted to."
The Director came across, "Ready? Yeah? Okay, get into position please, James you lay back on the bed, Jamie-Lynn you, uh climb on top of him, between his legs and we'll pull the sheet over you."
Jamie-Lynn looked nervous again, James thought. He stood to slide his robe off.
"I'll go first I guess" he smiled, getting nervous himself, and he dropped it off his shoulders and threw it to the side.
Jamie-Lynn looked down at James' vest and boxers and he joked "Not the most attractive outfit, I know."
She took a deep breath and untied the robe and grasped each side and pulled it open, only to James' gaze, and watched his eyes immediately drop to her breasts. She was a 32B and believed she looked quite pretty naked, but she had wanted to see his reaction. His eyes widened and he stared, and just stared at her boobs. He looked down at the black panties she was wearing, below he toned stomach and smooth, slightly curved thighs.
"Okay?" she asked, jolting him back to reality.
"Yeah, yeah," he said looking up. He couldn't believe how perfect her body was.
She reached up to draw the robe away from her shoulders which pushed her boobs out towards him and he couldn't help but look down again. Her nipples were not too big in area and her little nubs were poking up, probably with the cold he thought. She dropped the robe behind her and James was suddenly aware of the remaining crew now checking out her ass which was now exposed to them, and realising he was the only one that could see her boobs just now.
She stood there in front of him, not moving, until James turned and sat on the edge of the bed, then swung his legs up so he was lying down. There was silence until the Director came up behind her and said quietly,
"Okay, um, just climb on top...get up on the bed, James, move your legs apart so Jamie-Lynn can lie in between them."
James spread his legs giving her space to get between them and she got up, crawling across him, unwittingly exposed her ass again and also the little strip covering her pussy to the guys behind her, and knelt between his ankles, then quickly lay down on her front.