'Sopranos' cast and crew were kicked out of a 'conservative Italian funeral home' while filming because of a line about blow jobs, new book reveals

• A former "Sopranos" producer revealed the cast and crew once got kicked out of a filming location.
• According to the producer, they were filming at a "little old conservative Italian funeral home."

A former producer for "The Sopranos" revealed that the cast and crew were once kicked out of a "little old conservative Italian funeral home" while filming a scene for season one.

In "Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers," a book centered on how HBO took over cable television, which was reviewed by Insider, producer Ilene Landress told journalist James Andrew Miller that this particular scene was being filmed in Manhattan, New York instead of New Jersey, where most of the production for season one took place.

As Landress was walking to set that day, however, she noticed something was amiss, the book detailed.

"I walk across Sixth Avenue, and I see our trucks in front of this little old conservative Italian funeral home where we were shooting," Landress recalled. "Then people start walking out, and the location manager running toward me."

According to Landress, she could tell there was "trouble ahead."

"We were shooting a funeral scene and the scene was a little lady in the coffin and Uncle Junior turns to somebody in the receiving line, glances into the coffin and says, 'She gave me my first blowjob,'" Landress remembered in the book. "Well, we got kicked out of the place."

The producer told Miller, "You could totally panic or you could see the humor in the whole thing."

"I called HBO and told them, 'I guess we're done for the day,'" Landress said in the tell-all book.

Lots of behind-the-scenes anecdotes about "The Sopranos" have come to light in recent months.

In September, Steve Schirripa, who played Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri on the show, told Insider stars James Gandolfini and Michael Imperioli once got so drunk before filming a cliffside scene that they had to be chained to a tree.

Schirripa said the two actors had shared whiskey before shooting the scene in season four, where — spoiler! — Tony Soprano (Gandolfini) and Christopher Moltisanti (Imperioli) throw the body of the murdered capo Ralph Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano) off a cliff.

"On the break, while they set up the lights, Michael and Jim drank a bottle of Wild Turkey," Schirripa said.

"They were so drunk that they had to chain their legs to a tree because they were afraid they were going to fall off the cliff," he added.

"The Sopranos," also starring Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, and Tony Sirico, first premiered on HBO in 1999, and ran for six seasons before ending in 2007.