Edie Falco who played the role of “Carmela Soprano” in ‘The Sopranos‘ will return on television for her role in the Showtime dark comedy ‘Nurse Jackie’. The series will most probably start airing on 8 June, this year. The 45 years old, Edie is a breast cancer survivor and she will now nurse the patients in most wicked, heartbreaking and the funny manner in ‘Nurse Jackie’.

The series is based on the journal of a real-life Manhattan ER nurse. If the pilot of the show is any indication, then this wickedly stimulating nurse has a dual personality. On one hand, she is angelic as a nurse, a wife and a mother but on the other hand, she is addicted to painkillers, commits adultery and acts as a vigilante (even suffers from Robin Hood Complex).

We saw Edie Falco as the materialistic, well organized and strong lady married to the mob boss Tony Soprano in ‘The Sopranos’ and now, we will see her as a interestingly wicked and funny nurse, Jackie who is always trying to do the right thing even when her methods are a bit unusual, to say the least. Well, I said ‘to say the least’ because in the pilot itself she does a few things that conventional wisdom would frown upon like flushing an ear down the toilet, giving boots and cash to a young girl besides taking the justice in her own hands.

When asked to comment on this upcoming series that’s what she had to say. “I started reading a lot of scripts after I finished The Sopranos.  I thought I would know when the right script came - and that’s what happened.”

She further added, “I was included in conversations about production - cast and crew decisions, dialogue, etc. and have been surprised to discover that I actually have opinions about these things and have loved being part of the larger process.”

The filming for ‘Nurse Jackie’ that started in last November, has been done entirely in New York, very close to Silver Cup studios where the ‘The Sopranos’ was filmed.