Edie Falco has no idea what happens to some of her movies after she films them. She likes it that way.

Edie Falco doesn't sweat the small stuff, but she wasn't always that way. A few years before she catapulted to fame as everyone's favorite mob wife, Carmela, on "The Sopranos," the acclaimed HBO drama about a mafioso attempting to balance his family and criminal life, Falco had another role she was eager for people to see. In 1997, she shot the pilot for the first attempt at a "Fargo" TV spinoff that ultimately didn't get picked up by the network.

Falco named the scrapped "Fargo" series, which finally aired as a one-off TV movie in 2003, at the peak of her Carmela fame, as the one role she wishes people talked about more. "This was long before I was so chill about whatever happens with shows. I was like, I want this to go," Falco tells Business Insider.

Over 25 years later, she's not hanging on to any regrets. She's learned there's usually a silver lining. "I was very proud of that, but, of course, had that gone forward, I wouldn't have been able to do 'The Sopranos,'" Falco recalls.

"So all this stuff works out the way it's supposed to." After decades in the business, Falco has perfected the ability to let scrapped pilots and failed movie auditions roll off her back. She partly credits it to being at a stage in her career where there are "fewer ramifications" if she gets a job or doesn't, compared to when she was a younger actor struggling to break through.

It's also partly due to a shift in mindset to avoid setting herself up for "a lot of turbulence and disappointment." "Y.