Stanley Tucci Was “Afraid” of Age Gap With Felicity Blunt

Stanley Tucci’s relationship with spouse Felicity Blunt nearly ended earlier than it had an opportunity to start. In a July interview with BBC Radio 4’s “Desert Island Discs,” Tucci opened up about his marriage to Emily Blunt’s sister, revealing early on, he tried to interrupt issues off resulting from their age distinction. “The Satan Wears Prada” actor is 62, 21 years older than his spouse.

“I used to be afraid to get right into a relationship and I saved attempting to interrupt it off,” Tucci mentioned. “I am 21 years older than she is and I did not need to really feel previous for the remainder of my life! However I knew that this was an extremely particular particular person.”

It wasn’t simply his age that was bothering Tucci. He was additionally nonetheless processing his grief over shedding his first spouse, Kate Tucci, who died from breast most cancers in 2009, when he grew to become concerned with Felicity in 2010. The 2 related at Emily’s wedding ceremony to John Krasinski, but it surely took the actor a while to let himself fall in love once more.

In the end, he realized his reference to Felicity was too sturdy to disregard, and the pair married in 2012. “Felicity has been so unimaginable taking up a widower and three kids whose mom died,” Tucci mentioned. “That is an enormous factor, at a really younger age too. If anyone made issues higher for all of us, it is her. She’s the one.”

Tucci then selected “A Foggy Day (in London City)” to play on the present, as a result of it is the track he and Felicity shared their first dance to at their wedding ceremony. He additionally honored Kate by introducing “What a Fantastic World,” which she requested be performed at her memorial. “I simply cherished that she picked this track as a result of that is the best way she noticed the world,” he mentioned. “She was at all times, at all times upbeat, at all times noticed issues in a optimistic approach, it doesn’t matter what was taking place.”

When Felicity and Tucci married, the literary agent stepped into the position of stepmother to Isabel and Nicolo, each 23, and Camilla, 21. Since then, the couple has welcomed two kids collectively: Matteo Oliver, 8, and Emilia Giovanna, 5.