Stanley Tucci

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Stanley Tucci is handsome, assertive, a killer dresser and he can teach you how to make a Negroni in under three minutes. He's also, of course, an excellent actor. He's starred in movies like The Devil Wears Prada, The Terminal, Julie & Julia and so many more. He's also the host of the Emmy-winning travel and food show Searching for Italy. Most recently, he's been starring in the megabudget action TV series Citadel that's streaming now on Amazon Prime. Stanley Tucci joins Bullseye to talk about the fun he's had working on Citadel. He also talks about what it's been like to create work that's so closely tied to his Italian heritage. Plus, he shares what kinds of food were in his lunchbox when he was a kid.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.5	He's handsome, assertive, a killer dresser, and he can teach you how to make a negroni
0:28.0	in just three minutes.
0:30.3	My guest this week is Stanley Tucci.
0:33.3	The Academy Award nominated star of the lovely bones, the Devil Wears Prada, Julie and
0:37.9	Julia and so many more, the writer and director of the legendarily heartwarming food dromody
0:45.0	big night, and the host of the excellent travel and food show searching for Italy.
0:51.8	Stanley Tucci does it all.
0:54.2	What's he been up to lately?
0:55.2	Well he's one of the stars of Citadel.
0:57.8	That's a mega budget action TV show streaming now on Amazon Prime.
1:03.1	The premise is this Citadel is an international spy agency or at least was an international
1:09.7	spy agency.
1:11.1	The show starts after Citadel has been taken down by a crime syndicate called Manticore.
1:18.8	These are just classic action movie names.
1:21.8	Tucci plays Bernard.
1:24.5	He's a tech genius who went into hiding after Citadel collapsed.
1:28.8	And when the show starts Bernard is reconnecting with Mason Kane, one of Citadel's top agents.
1:35.2	Their mission is to take down Manticore.
1:38.2	But there's a catch.
1:40.3	Mason has no idea that he used to be a spy.
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