Stanley Tucci "continued to try to break it" with a woman over the age of 21.

The actor has been married to Emily Blunt's sister, Felicity since 2012.


They have been married for 11 years now, but Stanley Tucci I just admitted that he was not sure at the beginning that his relationship with Felicity Blunt would work. He even declared in a recent interview that he "continued to try to break him" with his wife now a woman, attempts that have clearly not taken. The problem was obviously not a lack of compatibility or chemistry. Tucci is 62 years old at Blunt by 40, and he thought that their age of 21 was too wide.

Read the rest to find out why Tucci was afraid of their age difference and what convinced him to ignore his fears.

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Tucci and Blunt met with his sister.

Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci at the 2010 Critics' Choice Awards
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Tucci and Blunt met for the first time thanks to his role in The devil wears Prada . The actor played in the comedy of 2006 with the sister of his future wife, Emily Blunt . At the time, Tucci was married to his first wife, Kathryn Spath , died in 2009 from breast cancer.

"[L] Hat is where I met Emily and we became friends," said Tucci about the film on the Podcast WTF with Marc Maron in 2021 ( via People ). "And, in fact, Felicity - Emily's sister, my wife - she and Kate spoke during the first that evening and I have a photo of them together, which is so strange. And then several Years later, I ended up marrying Felicity. " AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Tucci and Blunt ended up reconnecting after the death of Spath, at the wedding of Emily to John Krasinski In 2010. After two years of meetings, they married in 2012.

Tucci was wary of their age difference.

Stanley Tucci and Felicity Blunt at the premiere of
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Tucci was the guest of the July 2 episode of the BBC Radio 4 Disks of the desert island , and he looked back on the loss of his first wife and starting a new relationship while he was in mourning. He also has admitted that he I tried to reduce this relationship and why.

"I was a little afraid of entering a relationship", Italian search Host said. "And I continued to try to break it, because I am 21 years older than [Felicity] and I didn't want to feel old for the rest of my life. But I knew it was a person Incredibly special. "

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He congratulated him to "take a widower".

Felicity Blunt and Stanley Tucci at the 2015 Venice Film Festival
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On Disks of the desert island , Tucci explained how the franc fits into his life and that of the three children he welcomed with Spath. When they gathered, her children just entered adolescence. Today, Nicolo And Isabel Tucci are 23 years old, and Camilla Tucci is 21.

"Felicity was so incredible to take a widower and three children whose mother died," said Tucci. "It's a huge thing, at a very young age too. If someone has improved things for all of us, she is her."

Today, the actor and the literary agent also have children together: eight years old Matteo Tucci and five years Emilia Tucci .

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Tucci is still in spath.

Stanley Tucci and Kathryn Spath at the premiere of
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Tucci expressed his difficulty - and is still - for losing Spath. "It was difficult. It was horrible," he said on Disks of the desert island . "You never really recover."

In an interview of 2015 with the United Kingdom The temperature ( via ABC News ), Tucci said he had "panicked instantly after" when he proposed to blunt.

"It was very difficult to go on vacation at the beginning, really difficult to go with Felicity somewhere. I felt guilty. It's horrible," he said. "You always feel guilty."

But he also talked about making a new start with Blunt, including going from New York to England, where it comes from.

"People here are just shocked. They are like," why did you move here? The weather? "", He said. "But I'm so comfortable here. I didn't want to continue living in Westchester [County, New York]. Once my wife died, I was there by myself and what was I doing? Me, it was the healthier option. "


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