Matthew Bevilaqua
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| Matthew Bevilacqua | |
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Bevilacqua (left), with Christopher Moltisanti and Sean Gismonte
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| First appearance | "Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office..." (episode 2.01) |
| Last appearance | "Bust Out" (episode 2.10) |
| Created by | David Chase |
| Portrayed by | Lillo Brancato Jr. |
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| Aliases | "Matt Drinkwater" "Bevilacqua kid" "Cheese Fuck" "Mike" |
| Gender | Male |
| Title | Associate of the Soprano crew in the DiMeo crime family |
| Relatives | Evil Bevilacqua (uncle) |
Matthew "Matt Drinkwater" Bevilacqua, played by Lillo Brancato Jr., is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.
Background
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Matthew Bevilacqua was Sean Gismonte's partner-in-crime and an associate in the DiMeo crime family working under Christopher Moltisanti in the Gualtieri crew. Matt and Sean were from West Orange, New Jersey. Matt wanted to move up in the ranks along with his best friend, Sean. He earned his brokerage license from Pace University and first sold shares in Webistics through a stock brokerage operated by Christopher Moltisanti. The Webistics scam was a typical pump and dump exercise. They got into trouble for stealing cars and beating up a broker who recommended the purchase of other stocks while Christopher was away with his girlfriend Adriana La Cerva. Matt and Sean worked with Christopher at various aspects of organized crime including: the Massarone Construction site, Junior Soprano's executive card game, and some burglary jobs with Chris and Sean. While collecting money, Furio together with an associate, took extra money from them when they came to pick up Tony's cut from the burglaries. Because of their lower status, Matt and Sean could not refuse them. Sean and Matt both tried to impress Tony in the Bada Bing restroom by talking about working with Chris but angered him by speaking candidly about criminal activities when the conversation could have been recorded by law enforcement. Sean then blames Matt for making him do all the talking.
They wanted to move up rapidly in the ranks of the family but realized that they were not respected and were being used by Tony, Christopher, Furio, and other mobsters. After hearing a story from Christopher about how Big Pussy Bonpensiero became a made man after he committed a murder on behalf of Tony's father Johnny Soprano, Matt and Sean shoot Chris and severely wounded him. Chris shoots and kills Sean but Matt escapes. Matt ran away from the scene and went to the Aprile crew's hangout asking capo Richie Aprile for help hoping Richie's dislike of Chris for hitting his niece, Adriana. Richie refused because he knew Tony would kill anyone involved in the attack. Richie chased Matt away with a baseball bat and Matt went into hiding. Eventually, Big Pussy Bonpensiero learned of Matt's whereabouts. Pussy and Tony dragged a beaten Matt to a locked refreshment shack and after interrogating him to make sure that he and Sean were acting on their own, and not for someone else, shot him 21 times in the chest, stomach and head. He was killed in a snack shack inside of the Hacklebarney State Park in Morris County.
After death
Cops later found Matt's body and a witness told officials about the murder, which according to a transcript was on the night of April 29, 2000, at about 9 PM. The witness identified Tony from a picture without knowing that he was a high ranking mobster. When the witness learned that the murder was Mafia-related, he then refused to cooperate. The FBI continued to try to pin the murder on Tony, but remained unsuccessful. Tony repeatedly worried about being implicated in the murder. In the second season finale, Tony asks Pussy if he may have tipped off the FBI about the Bevilaqua hit. Pussy denies this accusation, although Tony executes him regardless.
In the fifth season finale, after Adriana is murdered, Tony asks Christopher if Adriana may have mentioned anything about Ralph or the "Bevilacqua kid" as he was taking precautions, making sure she hadn't said anything to the FBI to implicate them in relation to the murders.
Appearances
- Played by: Lillo Brancato Jr.
- Appears in: "Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office...", "Do Not Resuscitate", "The Happy Wanderer", "Full Leather Jacket", "From Where to Eternity", and "Bust Out"
- Mentioned in: "Funhouse," and "All Due Respect"
