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It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. He's handsome, assertive, a killer dresser. He can teach you how to make a

Nogroni in under three minutes. Stanley Tucci is my guest this week. The Academy Award nominated

star of The Lovely Bones, The Devil Wares Prada, Julie and Julia, and so many others, the writer and director of the

heartwarming food dramedy Big Night, and the host of the excellent travel and food show

searching for Italy. The man can do it all. What's he been up to lately? Well, he plays Cardinal

Aldo Bellini in Conclave, the Oscar-nominated drama starring Ray Fines, John Lithgow,

Isabella Rossellini, and many others. He is wonderful in it. When I talked to him in

2003, he had starred in Citadel, a mega-budget action TV show that is streaming now on Amazon Prime.

Here's the premise. Citadel is the name of an international spy agency,

or at least it was. The series starts off after Citadel was taken down by a crime syndicate

called Mantecor. Tucci plays Bernard, a tech genius who went into hiding after Citadel collapsed.

When the show begins, Bernard reconnects with one of

Citadel's top agents, Mason Kane. Their mission is to take down Mantacore, but there's a hitch.

Mason has no idea he used to be a spy. When Citadel fell, his memories were erased, and he got a new

identity. In this scene, Bernard and Mason are out on a

mission. Mason's a little nervous. Bernard decides to lend him a hand. There's a secret

manicure tech lab on the top floor of that tower. The case is in their lab. But the good news is

I'm a genius. And I hacked into their servers so your biometrics

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