The Sopranos (The Sopranos episode) Michael Santoro play Irina and Father Phil respectively. For future episodes, these roles were recast with Oksana Lada and Paul Schulze. Drea De Matteo was originally simply cast as a restaurant hostess for this one episode only. The filmmakers liked her performance, and her character was developed into the role of Adriana La Cerva in future episodes. The pork store used as a meeting place is Centanni's Meat Market, a real butcher shop in Elizabeth, New Jersey. However, because the shop had a steady business and because local business owners were annoyed with the incidental effects of having a television
Adriana Abascal Adriana Abascal Adriana Abascal (born October 31, 1970) is a Mexican-born model, who has appeared on the covers of magazines including Elle, Vogue, Bella, Marie Claire, Hola! and Vanity Fair, she is also an executive producer, TV show host (US & Latin America), and an author. She won the title of Señorita Mexico in 1988 and participated in "Miss Universe 1989". Abascal became a host of the Emmy-nominated TV show "Todobebé" which aired nationally on Telemundo and syndicated across Latin America. In 2002, she wrote the book “Una mujer, cada Mujer” (One woman, every Woman), distributed in the US, Mexico,