article_snippet.sent: The Oscar nominated actress, 60, revealed Lorraine Bracco turned down the starring role alongside James Gandolfini in the landmark HBO drama because Lorraine Bracco had already played a mobster's wife in Goodfellas, nine years previously.
article_snippet.sent: And I said, 'Look, I don't think I should play Carmela because I did it, I did it in a Scorsese movie, I got an Oscar nomination. '
article_snippet.sent: Oscar nominated: Lorraine Bracco starred opposite Ray Liotta in Goodfellas in 1990.
article_snippet.sent: The Martin Scorsese mob drama is recognized as one of the greatest movies in that genre .
highlights_snippet.sent: The actress turned The Sopranos creator down because The actress played a mobster's wife in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas in 1990 .
  