The Sopranos actor shares never before seen element to Tony’s dream sequence

Finally, Bobba Bacala in lederhosen!

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‘The Test Dream’, the eleventh episode of the fifth season of The Sopranos, remains one of the greatest episodes of television ever made. It is as surreal as any dream sequence you’ll see, packs an emotional punch, and yet avoids heavy-handed symbolism, serving up a ton of fleeting images very much open to the viewer’s interpretation.

It seems not all of them made into the final edit though, with Bobby Baccalieri actor Steven Schirripa recently tweeting this out:

Your guess is as good as ours as to why Tony was being haunted by a vision of Bobby Bacala in traditional Bavarian clothing, especially given this episode took place long before Bacala’s death and the pair’s fight at the beach house.

It’s an interesting piece of Sopranos history though, and I love how the low-res pic doesn’t so much look like a behind-the-scenes shot but something out of the Bacala family photo album.

Last year, we spoke to the costumer designer on The Sopranos about Tony's excellent array of shirts, getting tips from the mob and the 'Bensonhurst tuxedo’.