Through its six-season run, classicHBOdramaThe Sopranosfeatured several unexpected cameos from real life celebrities.
But it was a lot of fun, and really a lark!
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What exactly makes Benings so strange and so effective?
The answer ultimately comes down to how seemingly random it is.
As is often the case withSopranosdream sequences, this one begins with something weighing heavily on Tonys mind.
Worried about his cousin, Tony falls asleep and … dreams about Annette Bening?
Pretty much, yeah!
Because thats what dreams are.
They only feel vaguely linear when we recount them to someone the following morning.
In the moment, however, theres no dramatic throughline.
Indeed, Tonys dream goes all over the place.
Probably because he knows its the fate that will eventually await him.
And thats where Annette Bening comes in.
And we mean literally actress Annette Bening.
Tony asks her if shes Annette Bening and she nods affirmatively before getting annoyed with his pestering.
Before Tony meets Bening, he sees his favorite actor Gary Cooper on a TV in Nuovo Vesuvio.
Among the onlookers is Annette Bening, whose raised hand de facto dream M.C.
Gloria Trillo acknowledges with a hilarious Annette Bening?
If this is all starting to sound weird and exhausting thats kind of the point.
Dreams only make the slightest bit of sense when you glance at the highlights.
For Tony, that clearly points to the stress hes experiencing over Tony B.
But the path that his dream takes to get there is a circuitous one.
Hilariously, the Coach Molinaro portion of the dream might be the only part of it Tony actually remembers.
That doesnt mean, however, that the Annette Bening of it all was all for naught.
She was an important part of Tonys dream journey.
Well, she was there.
And when it comes to dream logic, sometimes thats the best you’re free to do.
