Riding a Rising Tide:
Q
& A with Actor Stanley Tucci
by
Susan Krawitz
ROLL:
Sounds sort of like an Italian Roots.
STANLEY
TUCCI: Right, exactly. There are forty million Italian Americans
in this country, and we’re obsessed with Italian Americans
and Italy. So to me, it not only has great artistic potential, but
commercial potential as well. I always wanted to see the story told
properly, and the scope of it is enormous, but I think it will be
very, very exciting. I’ll do it in conjunction with Nick Pileggi,
who is the writer of Goodfellas and Casino. He’s a brilliant,
brilliant writer, and he and Gay Talese are related, so this story
is their family story.
ROLL:
Do you get much time off in between projects?
STANLEY
TUCCI: The hard part is trying to find the time…Some years
are slow, some years are busy; luckily, this has been a busy year.
You work when you get the work, because, you know, there’s
nothing worse than languishing and thinking, why isn’t the
phone ringing? You have to pick up the phone yourself most of the
time to get things, because if you wait for the other people it
will never happen. Hollywood has a very short memory. It’s
been a great—it’s not often that I know so much in advance
what it is I’m going to be doing, I have to say. Usually it’s
job to job to job. And even after 25 years in show business, it’s
job to job and that’s where it gets a little frustrating.
But it’s not like that this year, so maybe the tide’s
changing.
ROLL:
You wear a lot of hats in the filmmaking business. Do you prefer
any particular one?
STANLEY
TUCCI: No, no, no, I’d rather just mix it up. As soon as I
start acting for too long, I get burned out and tired...CONTINUE...
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