Stanley Tucci says he ‘couldn’t get a job’ after The Devil Wears Prada

Oscar-nominated prima Stanley Tucci said helium took acting jobs helium “didn’t needfully privation to do” due to the fact that helium struggled to onshore a relation aft his starring crook successful The Devil Wears Prada.

The 2006 David Frankel movie saw Meryl Streep play Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a precocious manner magazine, with Tucci starring arsenic her originative manager Nigel.

It besides saw British prima Emily Blunt play Streep’s semipermanent adjunct Emily Charlton and Anne Hathaway arsenic caller adjunct Andrea Sachs.

“After The Devil Wears Prada, I couldn’t get a job, and I didn’t rather recognize that, but that’s conscionable the mode it was,” Tucci told Vanity Fair magazine.

“So I went and did worldly that I didn’t needfully privation to do, but I did it.”

The 63-year-old confirmed helium would beryllium consenting to prima successful a much-anticipated sequel, which is yet to beryllium announced.

“I deliberation they privation it to happen, I would imagine. But I cannot truly talk to it due to the fact that it mightiness not happen. I don’t know,” helium said.

Tucci said his vocation has ever gone done “fluctuations” for some concern and idiosyncratic reasons, including being diagnosed with oral crab successful 2017.

“Having been sick six years ago, that threw a wrench into the works for a while, and past you dilatory get back,” helium said.

“But I had to commencement doing things. I needed to enactment due to the fact that I needed money. I astir apt started moving excessively soon.

“I didn’t truly person the vigor to bash it aft the treatments, but you had to bash it, and yet you ascent backmost up again.”

After The Devil Wears Prada successful 2006, Tucci again starred alongside Streep successful 2009’s Julie & Julia, earlier appearing alongside Irish histrion Saoirse Ronan successful The Lovely Bones aboriginal that twelvemonth – which won him an Academy Award nomination.

He besides starred successful Burlesque with Cher and Christina Aguilera successful 2010, arsenic good arsenic Easy A with Emma Stone and The Hunger Games franchise which began successful 2012 starring Jennifer Lawrence.