The actress recently joined the adult website, and says she’s doing it to take control of her own career.
26.08.2023 - 18:07 / etcanada.com
Fans of Drea de Matteo are about to see a lot more of the former “Sopranos” star — a lot more, now that she’s launched her own OnlyFans subscription site.
According to Deadline, the 51-year-old actress launched her OnlyFans with a sultry shot of herself sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette while wearing nothing but a pair of knee-high leopard-print boots.
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As the outlet noted, subscribers who pay $15 per month will see de Matteo’s candid, uncensored photos.
She promoted the launch with a pair of posts on Instagram Story, with one featuring a triple-X designation and burning flames.
In a 2021 interview with NME, de Matteo looked back on her initial decision to put some distance between herself and her “Sopranos” character, admitting she’d come to realize she should have leaned into more similar roles instead.
“I felt down — it was very scary. I played a New Yorker with a very heavy accent and that’s the kiss of death for someone who wants to do other things. I jumped right into [‘Friends’ spinoff] ‘Joey’ – which I didn’t think was a smart move but everybody pushed me into it – where I’m playing Adriana but as a cartoon. The reason people loved Adriana was because she wasn’t a caricature, she was real,” de Matteo explained.
“Looking back, I think: ‘Silly girl, you had a talent for that. You should have maximized on that accent, being from Queens, being a New Yorker.’ But instead I wanted to work against it and it didn’t work in my favour. If you want to see Christopher Walken, you wanna see Christopher Walken, you know what I mean? You don’t wanna watch him do Shakespeare.”
The actress recently joined the adult website, and says she’s doing it to take control of her own career.
The Sopranos star Drea de Matteo said she joined OnlyFans last month because her stance on the COVID-19 vaccine cost her work.Speaking to Fox News, the actress, who played Adriana La Cerva in the hit HBO series, opened up about the backlash she received for speaking out against the vaccine.“My own industry thinks I’m, you know, a savage,” she said. De Matteo’s agent dropped her due to the controversy, leaving her out of work and nearly homeless, she explained.
“People find that hard to believe that I was never really paid very much money for any of the jobs I’ve done,” Sopranos actress Drea de Matteo said about her decision to post racy content on subscription site OnlyFans. “People think I’m f***ing made of gold, and I’m not. I’ve worked job to job.”
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Drea de Matteo is opening up about her OnlyFans account.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director “The Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo announced in late August that she was launching an OnlyFans account that followers could subscribe to for $15 a month. Now in an interview with Fox News Digital, the actor explained that pivoting to OnlyFans came as a result of losing acting work over the last couple of years due to her stance against COVID vaccine mandates. “I know some people have said some nasty things about me having joined OnlyFans,” de Matteo said.
announced that she had joined OnlyFans. “I know some people have said some nasty things about me having joined OnlyFans.
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announced on social media late Wednesday. Chris-ta-fah would certainly be jealous.De Matteo’s page, available for a monthly $15, simply says “THE SOPRANOS” beneath a steamy close-up of just the actress’ cleavage popping through a star-spangled bikini top.Her profile photo shows the mob heartthrob completely nude in thigh-high heeled boots, smoking a cigarette bedside with another woman, who is sporting skimpy black underwear partially out of frame.The Post has reached out to de Matteo for comment.Throughout her five seasons on the acclaimed New Jersey mafia drama, de Matteo’s stunning looks were often their own subplot of the show.
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