Edie Falco returns for final rounds in the seventh season of "Nurse Jackie" on Showtime.
The pill-popping nurse Jackie Peyton will find herself in jail after crashing into an ambulance at the end of last season. She'll also fight to earn back her nursing license, as well as her family and friends.
Falco spoke to reporters (including Headlines & Global News) at the Television Critics Association in January about the final season of "Nurse Jackie," where Jackie will end up and what's next in her own career.
Q: How sad was that last day on set?
Edie Falco: There was almost an embarrassing amount of crying. But we knew each other and we knew it would be emotional, so we let ourselves get emotional.
Q: Was everyone on set that day?
EF: Yes, they were very good about the schedule in that we shot it in order and the last scene was the last scene. The whole cast was there and it could not have been more beautifully done.
Q: In the premiere you are suing the hospital, is this the ultimate test of your allegiance to Jackie in that she's going to battle the place she loves the most?
EF: I think I come to realize that she has to be a nurse. That's almost as strong an addiction as her other one so she will go to any lengths to see to it that that happens.
Q: Did you keep anything from the set?
EF: I took the necklace. That was it, I'm not big on that and don't keep a lot of stuff.
Q: Did you keep anything from Camilla [on 'The Sopranos']?
EF: There was a little plaque on the wall in the kitchen that was hideous. It was made of shells and a piece of a weed from outside that we had decided she'd made in a craft class or something, it was absolutely hideous but I kept it.
Q: Where do you keep it?
EF: It's in a box in my attic so it's not really displayed anywhere.
Q: What kind of message does the end of the series say about addiction?
EF: That anyone that is going through it as an addict or someone surrounded by them, you are not by yourself. And no, it's not pretty. Don't be surprised that your life doesn't look pretty. Even if television reflects something else, I'd only [say it's] hard for people to be able to say yes, I recognize that.
Q: Do you have any advice for people who have family members dealing with something like this?
EF: Al-Anon, it's a fantastic organization.
Q: What's the future of what you want to do on TV - drama or comedy?
EF: I don't know what either of those things mean. Apparently this was a comedy that I just did, so I'll do another one of those [laughs].
Q: But you've worked in the multi-camera format on shows like 'Will and Grace,' right?
EF: You know that scared the hell out of me, I watched Sean Hayes and said how the hell did these guys do this? It's a whole other set of muscles and brilliant to watch. It would take me a great deal of time to get comfortable in that medium and I don't know how important it is to me, I very much love what I've had to do so far. But we'll see.
Q: What is Edie Falco like off the set?
EF: I'm really boring. I'm crazy boring, I didn't used to be but I'm so thrilled with my boring life. I have two beautiful kids and we sit around and watch Nickelodeon, order in a pizza. Really. People tell me they never see me in Page 6 and I'm like, 'They've got to sell papers, why would they say anything about me? I got nothing.'
Q: What do you watch on TV?
EF: I just watched The Honorable Woman with Maggie Gyllenhaal; Transparent with Jeffery Tambor. I'm really passionate about actors and acting. I have a real baby and I don't know a lot about other things but I know a lot about that, or I feel that I do and I know what I like. So Jon Voight and Liev Schreiber, great actors, I'll go where they are.
Q: Have your kids shown any interest in acting and would you give them your blessing?
EF: If they found the kind of passion for acting that I have I would be all for it. But no, they couldn't care less about what I do.
Reporting by Steve Gidlow
