I agree that she's a wonderful actress. The Carmela character is one of the most complex, and hilariously funny, hypocrites ever created. She joyously wallows in the luxury and power Tony's "profession" enables her to enjoy while simultaneously going to church and agonizing with various priests over the guilt feelings she's suffering. In the first episode of the first season she hears somebody trying to get into the second floor, grabs an AK, chambers a round, goes out and points it at Meadow, her daughter, who's trying to sneak in. Then, when Tony decides AJ needs more discipline in his life and tries to send him to a military academy, Carmela loudly protests, complaining that they actually DRILL WITH GUNS. Writing just doesn't get any better than that, and Edie manages to pull it off as Carmela.
Yeah, the writing on this show is great that way.
That is the genius of the writing. Nobody is black or white. The contradictions, the hypocrisy that is demanded of the characters who are part of a mafia family. One simply cannot be in a mafia family without being what Carmela is. I find it so intriguing.
And I don't think an actor worth his salt minds playing a character like this.
so she didn't vote for Bush and finds it sickening for her character to say so, I don't care. She is brilliant. And if I were her and had to say, in character, that I voted for Kerry I would feel sickened too.