Riding
a Rising Tide:
Q
& A with Actor Stanley Tucci
by
Susan Krawitz
...And I just finished doing this other movie—I did a few
this year—with Barry Levinson called What Just Happened, with
Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, Bruce Willis and John Turturro. Then I
did this American Girl movie, you know those American Girl dolls?
It’s called Kit Kittredge, An American Girl Mystery, and I
tell you, it was so much fun making this sweet kid’s movie.
And now I’m going to do this movie with Kevin Costner called
Swing Vote, then I’ll come home and edit again, and then go
back out to LA and do some TV stuff, some ER episodes, four more
of those.
ROLL:
You have a lot going on.
STANLEY
TUCCI: Too much going on. I’m supposed to do a movie with
Peter Jackson in the fall, but I’m not so sure that’s
going to work out. [editorial note: latest word is that Tucci will
indeed star in Peter Jackson’s film version of the novel The
Lovely Bones, as murderer George Harvey.] Then I’ll do a movie
next year with Meryl Streep that Norah Ephron will direct. Meryl
will play Julia Child and I’ll play Paul Child. And I’m
inches away from getting the financing to put together a production
company with Steve Buscemi. We like to make our own movies, and
it’s very hard to find the financing on your own.
The
other thing I’m very excited about is this project for HBO
called Unto the Sons. It’s based on Gay Talese’s book
about his family and their immigration to America from southern
Italy. It’s a 600-page tome and it explains in great detail
about the history of Italy, and also of the Italian immigration,
through this family. I’ll turn it into a miniseries for HBO
because the story’s never been told. There have been pieces
of it; The Godfather or Big Night, or Goodfellas, but the story
in its entirety has never been told before...CONTINUE...
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