Stanley Tucci remembers post-‘Devil Wears Prada’ struggles: “I couldn’t get a job”
nme.comThe Devil Wears Prada.The actor played Nigel in the 2006 movie alongside Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt, which enjoyed success at the box office and earned two Oscars.Despite the film’s success, Tucci said he struggled to secure roles after telling Vanity Fair in a new interview: “After The Devil Wears Prada, I couldn’t get a job, and I didn’t quite understand that, but that’s just the way it was.
So I went and did stuff that I didn’t necessarily want to do, but I did it.”Although he appeared in films for the next couple of years, it wasn’t until 2009 that he featured in anything high profile such as Julie & Julia and Peter Jackson‘s The Lovely Bones, the latter of which earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars.Tucci went on to say that his acting career has “always gone through these fluctuations, and sometimes it’s just the business.
Sometimes it was personal reasons why you can’t work.”He added: “Having been sick six years ago, that threw a wrench into the works for a while, and then you slowly get back.
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