Stanley Tucci assumed he would never have another significant other after his first wife Kate died of breast in 2009, but a young lady named Felicity Blunt changed that.
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Stanley Tucci on Age Gap with Emily Blunts Sister
Stanley Tucci assumed he would never have another significant other after his first wife Kate died of breast cancer in 2009, but a young lady named Felicity Blu...
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The 65-year-old actor said his relationship with Felicity, 45, the older sister of , 'just sort of made sense' despite the 21-year difference in their ages. They have been married since 2012.
'I wasn’t sure that I would ever remarry,' Tucci told on Thursday's episode of her Open Book podcast while promoting his new book What I Ate in One Year, per People.
The Devi Wears Prada 2 star married Kate in 1995 and they had three children, twins Isabel and Nicolo, 26, and daughter Camilla, 24. Their marriage was considered a solid and loving one.
But then Kate was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer in 2006 and three years later she succumbed to the disease at age 47, leaving Tucci a widower with three youngsters under the age of 10.
'I never thought I would have children again. And when I met [Felicity, it just sort of made sense even though there is this age gap of 21 years,' said Tucci, who recently revealed in 2006.
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Stanley Tucci - pictured on Friday - assumed he would never have another significant other after his first wife Kate died of breast cancer in 2009, but a young lady named Felicity Blunt changed that
The 65-year-old actor said his relationship with Felicity, 45, the older sister of Emily Blunt , 'just sort of made sense' despite the 21-year difference in their ages (pictured together on Monday in New York City)
Tucci and the London literary agent initially met in 2006 at the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada, and reconnected at Emily's wedding to John Krasinski in 2010.
'Obviously, I knew her family, or I knew her sister was one of my best friends. And we just hit it off,' Tucci added.
'We had a lot in common, even though we had nothing in common. And it just sort of stuck.
'I wasn’t sure that I would ever remarry, I never thought I would have children again,' Tucci said on Jenna Bush Hager's Open Book podcast (he and Felicity are pictured in April)
Tucci's first wife Kate - seen here with the actor in March 2008 - died in 2009, leaving him a widower with three young children
The Julie and Julia star reconnected with Felicity at Emily's wedding to John Krasinski in 2010; the four are pictured on April 30
Felicity has been a major force in Tucci's other careers as writer and cooking influencer; Tucci is pictured in the kitchen of Da Tonino with Giuseppe Bertoleoni in a still from his show Tucci in Italy
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'It completely changed my life. I mean, I would be sitting here maybe talking to you about a movie I did or something,' the Julie and Julia actor told Hager. 'But, no. Now I'm sitting here talking to you about a book I wrote, which, you know, spawned a whole bunch of other things.
'I think we were all shocked by the success of it. But what it did was it opened up my world completely, and it was the show, the show that I had done on CNN, that had changed things a bit already. But then, this thing just blew everything. Blew it all up.'
Tucci previously revealed in a 2023 interview with BBC radio how he tried to break up with Felicity in the early stages of their relationship due to his anxiety over their age gap. He feared he would 'feel old for the rest of my life,' but decided to stay with her because she was 'an incredibly special person.'
'Felicity has been so incredible taking on a widower and three children whose mother died,' he said. 'That's a huge thing, at a very young age, too. If anybody made things better for all of us, it's her. She's the one.'
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