“And the Emmy goes to…?”
Edie Falcodoesn’t know whyPete Davidsonwanted her to play his mom in the upcoming comedy seriesBupkis.
“It’s not based on the way a character would really behave in that situation.
Joe Pesci, Edie Falco, and Pete Davidson on ‘Bupkis’.Heidi Gutman/PEACOCK
It really is more about what an audience would find funny but within the realm of a mother-son relationship.
So it’s really out of my wheelhouse.”
(Davidson was just 7 years old at the time.)
Pete Davidson and Edie Falco on ‘Bupkis’.Heidi Gutman/Peacock
“Mom has been the sole parent figure.
“He’s a wild child, and I think she worries about him.
In the process, she witnessed the “fascinating, fascinated, rambunctious, boisterous” Davidson at play.
“Pete’s really exceedingly charming and self-effacing and humble.
By contrast, theSopranosalum says Pesci’s family patriarch is a “strict father.”
“My dad’s gone about five years now and we were very, very close.
So I had a sense of intimacy with Joe that was not really earned.
I had an ease around him that made it very, very easy to work with him.”
Family, Falco says, is the ultimate focus of the series.
“It all amounts to bupkis.”
