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"I hope that I steal the crown."
HBO
What character are you playing?
KEENA
I'm playing Trishelle. She's Joey's old friend/school chum from back in the day.
HBO
What's it like going into an audio booth and trying to act?
KEENA
I had the advantage actually of working and doing most of my scenes with Christian, so it was kind of like
acting in a real scene. I did all the emotions and movements with my hands as if I would have been
filmed for TV or a movie, because it's just hard for me to emote with my voice without doing any of the
other stuff. We were able to work off each other really well.
HBO
What kind of person is Trishelle? What happens to her throughout the game?
KEENA
Trishelle's a really tough cookie. (LAUGHS) I was able to reach back into my past to my Brooklyn roots
and get the accent and the attitude back. She's definitely very tough and knows what she wants. And in
this case she wants Joey. I would say she's works as this sort of internet porn person but she's very
embarrassed by what she does and she never actually admits it to Joey. Finally she does, later on in the
game but she's not proud of that. And she's just this really hot, tough Brooklyn chick.
HBO
How does The Sopranos® translate to the game? Will people think this is The Sopranos®?
KEENA
I think so. Because there are many familiar faces and the graphics are done so well that all of the
characters from the show that are in the game really look like themselves. They all have their same
attitudes and the same voices. I think it will translate very well just because of that.
And even though this is sort of a new story line, it's along the lines of all of the story lines that were on
The Sopranos. I think it's really cool that it's a continuation and it's sort of like a sequel in a way that
Sopranos fans can re-live and interact with their favorite characters and be able to play along.
HBO
You seem like a very sweet person. What's "the attitude?"
KEENA
(LAUGHS) It's great. I love being able to play different characters. I am sort of very shy and soft-
spoken usually and it's wonderful to be able to take a journey and sort of be who I would have been if I
had stayed in Brooklyn all this time. (LAUGHS) And finally re-live that through Trishelle.
HBO
How do you feel about seeing yourself in a video game?
KEENA
I think it'll be great to be able to make myself run around (LAUGHS) and hear myself talk in a different
accent and voice and all of that. Everyone I've told about it is excited -- I mean more excited for me doing
this game than they usually are when I'm cast in a movie or a TV show. This is a much bigger deal to
(LAUGHS) everyone because video games are so popular now. The other thing, I think, (my friends)
wanted to see me in these revealing little tight outfits (LAUGHS) that I never usually wear in my real life.
They took all these pictures of me, so my body will actually look like my body but I'll be wearing much
more revealing costumes than I ever would wear in my normal life. I think there was a big question if my
character would be topless or not, and finally they decided no. But I think definitely certain friends of mine
would have liked to have seen me be topless because they never got the opportunity to see that in real
life with me. (LAUGHS) So they'd finally get a glimpse of what it probably would look like. (LAUGHS)
HBO
How is this going to stay true to The Sopranos®?
KEENA
All the characters are the same. They didn't just sort of do a half-assed job of making the characters look
somewhat like the characters from the show and hiring actors that had similar voices.
HBO
Who is going to be hotter, Adriana or your character?
KEENA
(LAUGHS) I don't know. I hope that I steal the crown. She's the reigning hot girl from The Sopranos®,
but I'd love for it to now be me. I like that my character is so similar to hers in the sense that she's the
tough bad-ass girl that sometimes gets tousled and messed-up. And I love that I was able to do that that.
And she was always the hot female love interest that everyone was pining after. (LAUGHS)
HBO
But you don't get to make out with Joey.
KEENA
I don't get to make out with him, unfortunately.
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