In another lifetime, The Sopranos' series finale could have starred Alec Baldwin as the man who finally offed Tony Soprano.

On an episode of Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa's podcast Talking Sopranos, Baldwin discussed how he once desired a role on the acclaimed HBO drama while it was on-air. "I called up whoever it was, I forget, and I said 'tell them, I mean, when it's time to kill Jimmy' — this was early, before you get to the end — and I said 'there's only one man in this business who should come in, whack Jimmy, and ride off with Edie, and I am that man. I am that man. I am the guy who needs to blow Jimmy away and take Edie, who I'm madly in love with, away,'" Baldwin revealed. "And they were like, 'Sure, great, we'll add your name to the list of all the Irish actors who think that they should be on The Sopranos."

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Though Alec Baldwin never appeared on The Sopranos, another member of the Baldwin family actually did. The show's Season 6 episode "Stage 5" saw Alec's brother Daniel play himself as an actor cast in Christopher Moltisanti's mob slasher film Cleaver, even being in attendance for the movie's first screening. A previous episode saw Christopher attempt to hire Sir Ben Kingsley for Cleaver, only for the actor to sharply turn him down.

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At the time of its release, The Sopranos' finale "Made in America" polarized audiences with its deliberately unfulfilling conclusion over Tony Soprano's fate. The episode's final scene saw Tony and his family gather for dinner in a local restaurant, only for the scene to infamously cut to black just as an unseen customer opens the door, simultaneously ending its "Don't Stop Believing" score mid-lyric. Since then, the scene has become a subject of countless analyses while the episode itself is now regarded as one of the greatest TV finales of all time.

A Sopranos prequel film, titled The Many Saints of Newark, is currently awaiting release. Directed by Alan Taylor, The Many Saints of New York stars Michael Gandolfini, Alessandro Nivola, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta and Corey Stoll. The film arrives in theaters and on HBO Max Sept. 24.

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