She’s nonetheless received it.
On the similar time “The Sopranos” celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary, the present’s Drea de Matteo has wound up on the temper boards of Hollywood’s hottest stylists.
The “Mob Spouse Aesthetic” is vogue’s hottest pattern, fascinating younger stars from Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift to Kylie and Kendall Jenner.
“My DMs, my f–king textual content messages,” have been blowing up, De Matteo — who’d been lately spending time in Switzerland unaware of the pattern that made the quilt of The Submit final week — advised us. “Each single publication has needed a cellphone name, a quote,” on mob spouse vogue.
She legendarily performed Adriana La Cerva, the long-suffering girlfriend of Michael Imperioli’s Christopher Moltisanti, on the collection, and rocked a lot of iconic seems on digicam — a few of which she saved, and had even been considering of promoting off effectively earlier than the gangster moll look was in.
Simply again from Europe, De Matteo recalled to us that “Sopranos” costume stylist Juliet Polcsa, “introduced me a field of the clothes on the final day,” she filmed the present, together with an epic tiger print cat swimsuit.
“I’ve what I died in,” she added of the outfits Polcsa gifted her, in addition to the horny getup she wore on the quilt of Rolling Stone in 2001 as shot by famed photographer Mark Seliger.
She additionally has some “snakeskin pants that have been fairly well-known,” in addition to varied items of “trashy lingerie,” plus a hoop she helped create for the present.
Most of her “Sopranos” memorabilia, together with the present’s scripts, was misplaced in a 2015 fireplace on the East Village condo constructing the place she lived for 22 years.
Fortunately, Adriana’s sizzling garments weren’t misplaced within the blaze.
“When I discovered it, I couldn’t imagine I had it,” she advised us. “A whole lot of my different stuff burned in a hearth in New York Metropolis… I discovered the opposite stuff in my Hamptons home, all of [Adriana’s] underwear, her bras, her footwear.”
“In fact I offered a few of her underwear on OnlyFans… individuals needed it,” the star, 52, candidly says with amusing.
She joined the racy social media platform final 12 months partly to generate profits after her movie and TV profession took successful as a result of she refused to get vaccinated in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
That was when she started excited about auctioning off the tiger print cat swimsuit.
“The backside line is I misplaced all the pieces within the pandemic,” she says. “The respect of my friends, my agent — everyone dropped me, with out even a cellphone name. I spotted what playground I’ve been taking part in in.”
“I figured I’d do one thing for myself and my youngsters,” she says of the potential sale. “Individuals mentioned, ‘it’s important to say it’s for a charity.’ Do I?”
It has been reported she solely made $500 per episode in her first 12 months of the HBO smash earlier than her wage went up, and he or she’s mentioned, “I didn’t spend sufficient time on the present to essentially generate profits.”
Whereas she’s nonetheless persona non grata within the business, she says, due to the vaccine controversy, the beautiful star’s OnlyFans account has helped put her in a much less precarious monetary place. “I really feel proud that I stood by my convictions,” she says.
The cat swimsuit — and the opposite threads — are nonetheless in her closet for now.
She’s additionally launching a hip new streetwear line, known as ULTRAFREE, subsequent month.
“It’s about making freedom cool once more,” the star says of the attire line she has developed along with her companion, Robbie Stabler, drummer of the band All Them Witches.
The road is impressed by ’80s type, and contains, “sweatshirts, sweatpants, big-ass logos,” she says.
Off-screen, her type isn’t precisely of the mob selection.
“I gown like a tomboy,” she says. “All of that clothes from ‘The Sopranos’ was all Juliet, and he or she beloved dressing me. I used to be her doll… the sluttier the higher,” she jokes of Adriana’s risque seems.